NFL Greatest Games Series: Green Bay Packers Greatest Games

To those griping about the "missing" Ice Bowl and S.B. I & II, they are part of another set (actually a combo of two 2-DVD sets) which costs about the same as this and contains a lot more historical info, so just buy it and stop whining. It includes a painstaking reconstruction of the Ice Bowl using thousands of feet of film obtained from many sources, and it has lots of interviews and background stuff missing from this ten-game set. No true Packer fan could do without both packagesThese aren't necessarily the games I would have chosen. For one thing, most Pack fans would really love to see the V**ings get creamed at least once, or maybe the V**ing game where Favre broke the all-time record for TD passes. However, surely Set Two will be in the works soon, especially after what happened to the Vikings early in 2008 in Mister Rodgers' Neighborhood, which I nominate for the next collection as being a milestone worthy of Favre's first win on 9/20/92 vs the Bengals.Despite the absence of purple bloodshed, however, these are all GREAT games, many of them with the Holmgren-coached mid-90's teams with Butler, White, Brown, Levens, Freeman, Brooks, Chmura, Howard, you know the gang, with SB XXXI as the centerpiece, of course. Most have fine audio and video quality except for Favre's dissection of the Bengals on 9/20/92, and the 1983 Redskins game, but they are still worthy of inclusion and great to watch.We have to skip a few tracks of noisy NFL blah-blah at the beginning of each disk. I would have also liked to see more background and follow-up on the games, and discussion & interviews with players and coaches. We get just the bare essentials, with much excised between the plays, including a few entire plays. This makes the flow a bit jerky and the transitions rather abrupt at times. However, this is a minor quibble, and it probably helped keep the price down, and enabled the producers to get the set in our hands a few months sooner.What a tremendous value! Even the $50 list price in the Lambeau Store would be a bargain at five bucks a game, but nobody has any basis for complaining about this set at the price offered here, just over $2 per game, nice and compact, only about twice as thick as a single DVD package. These are GREAT games, all but one from the Favre era, surely some of the most watchable years of football that any team ever put together. The one pre-Favre game has the then-world champ Redskins with Riggins & co. getting the worst of the highest-scoring MNF contest ever with commentary by the tarnished MNF crew, unfortunately, minus Howard Cosell.All in all, this is easily worth five stars. Maybe if enough of us buy it, there'll be a sequel. Not every team could say this, but for the Packers, finding ten more great games should be no problem!Now what we need are the ten most embarrassing and humiliating losses by the Vikings, Bears, Cowboys, Patriots, and Dolphins. Just think -- the NFL could sell each of those sets to fans of 31 teams instead of just one . . .Added: In the latter category, I remind fellow Razorback fans that Amazon has or had a DVD of the 2000 Cotton Bowl, where the Hawgs embarrassed and humiliated the highly favored UT Longhorns IN DALLAS . . . heh heh heh . . .ADDED: Sorry, Favre-haters, but I understand how the current situation came to pass, without any evil intent on the part of anyone involved. Favre was pretty beat-up and discouraged after missing out on another SB ring in Jan 2008, so he decided to hang it up. GB bosses were correct to design the team around Rodgers, who had already shown what he could do when substituted for Favre in the Dallas game. Favre has never known anything much except football, so when July rolled around, as he had responded all his life, he just could not resist the siren call of the practice field. GB management made the right long-term decision to stick with Rodgers, so Favre had to go elsewhere. The Jets' managers were just penalized for concealing his injuries last year -- would we have wanted another few years of an iron man turning rusty?As much as I hate to admit it, the V**ings have the best ground game in the NFL, a good match as Favre sees it, (I hope he's wrong). AP and Taylor will lighten the load on Favre, thus giving his 40ish body a chance at another SB ring (HE thinks, anyway), and letting him again hear his actions set tens of thousands of voices aroar, not always with joy, especially as we GB fans envision the coming season. That is what Favre has always lived for, and is very hard to resist (not to mention $10-12 mil). It was no longer available to Favre at GB -- who has a better QB for the next DVD set. Just as with Favre, GB will need to back Rodgers up with strong protection, good defense, a decent running game, and receivers who get open and hang onto passes, all of which could be coming together now.I still appreciate how Favre made football (and even the sidelines) so wonderfully watchable, and enjoy experiencing not just a unique player, but a unique team (whose other stars also went on to other teams, including a few to the V**ings), in a unique era. That era has changed from the present to history, as all eras do. This set of DVDs allows us to visit that era whenever we wish.

Born and Bred in southern California, don't ask me why I'm a Packer-fan, but I am, *lol*.Overall, this is a wonderful set that comes in a plastic case with the front & back 'flip' holders all contained in one place. Nice.Alas, whoever chose the game on Disk 5, (Packers vs Bengals-- Sept 20, 1992), was an idiot. It's quite possibly the most boring game of all-time. There are so many other, far-superior games that could have been chosen.Alas, I guess they chose it because it was Brett Favre's first off-the-bench, full-game quarterbacking since the 'star' and starting QB, (Don Majkowski), was injured on the second play of the 1st quarter with a sprained/torn-ligament ankle. Be that as it may, (from an historical perspective), Brett didn't yet have his sea legs and couldn't make a pass to save his life. Literally, only the last 5-minutes of this game is worth watching.Brett is so young in that game, (23-years-old)... a baby! *lol*. And, boy, did he come a long way from that so-long-ago beginning. But, still, for all the historical sentimentality, I want to see 'Clash of the Titans' football when purchasing game-series DVDs like this.There is one other complaint I have, but not to do with the games. It has to do with the way the disks were organized. If you ask me, these disks should have been numbered chronologically by DATE.Example: Disk 1 is the Jan 26-1997 XXXI Super Bowl... and it's fantastic!However, Disk 4 is the Jan 12-1997 NFC Championship game that led to the XXXI Super Bowl two-weeks later! And I, for one, would have much rather viewed this game before the Super Bowl game on Disk 1.The way they are, (stupidly, imho), ordered in the case:1983-- Disk 81992-- Disk 51995-- Disk 91996-- Disk 101997-- Disk 41997-- Disk 11998-- Disk 72003-- Disk 32004-- Disk 62008-- Disk 2As such, once we watched all these games, (making sure nothing was wrong with the disks), I used a Sharpie and re-numbered them myself; then placed them back in the case that way so I could watch them in order the next time.All-in-All, I LOVE this set. No commercials, no half-time baloney, no 'cast of thousands' jawing their opinions in pre/post game coverage... just 1-complete game per disk, (about an hour-and-twenty-minutes viewing time for each).And, perhaps the best part, they always win! So you're always happy to watch no matter what's going on, or how bleak it all looks during the game, *lol*.This 'Green Bay Packers 10 Greatest NFL Games' series is well-worth the price of admission... go get one, *vbs*.

Good to hear the old broadcasters again. Great to see the old players and coaches again. Fun to see how the game was played in light of modern rules. What the outcome would have been if the rules were different.

As advertised. Great games

I love watching the old games and would have given this dvd-set five stars if not for an incredibly stupid decision by NFL Films. On the menu page, they give you all the pertinent information: the date, the Packers' opponent, where the game's being played, and . . . THE FINAL SCORE! Okay, granted, you know the Packers are going to win; maybe you can even remember if they won big or it was decided in the final minute; but knowing the final score takes all the fun out of watching the fourth quarter. Will the other team score and force the Packers to make a last-second comeback? Will they score a touchdown on a big play, settle for a field goal, or just run out the clock? Well, thanks to some bonehead at NFL Films you already know. On two games so far I stopped watching after 3 quarters, because I knew nothing was going to happen the rest of the game.If you agree this is a stupid policy, please say so below in a comment. Perhaps if enough people express displeasure, someone at NFL Films will take notice and mend their ways on future releases.

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For all fans of Green Bay and indeed all football fans this collection is a must. Since receiving this collection I have been wallowing in nostalgia and pride and shedding the odd tear or two when recalling special moments from special players at this special team.This is without doubt the best purchase I have ever made from Amazon.

日本では，NFLははっきりいってマイナースポーツだと思いますが，それだけにこういった商品はうれしいものです．放送当時のCMや，プレー間をつめるためのカット以外は完全収録．基本的に全プレーを見ることができます．収録内容は以下の10試合．他チームでもこのようなDVDセットが販売されていますが，それよりも枚数が多めなのはこの球団の伝統ゆえ，なのでしょうか．●Super Bowl XXXI - Packers vs. Patriots 1/26/1997●2007 NFC Divisional Playoff Packers vs. Seahawks 1/12/2008●2003 Packers Vs. Raiders - Favre Stars In Tribute To Father 12/22/2003●1992 Favre Comes Off The Bench And Stuns Bengals 9/20/1992●2003 NFC Wild Card Playoff - Packers vs. Seahawks - and we're gonna score 1/4/2004●1997 NFC Championship Game - Packers vs. 49ers 1/11/1998●1983 Packers 48, Redskins 47. Highest scoring MNF game ever 10/17/1983●1995 Packers vs. Bears - Brett throws for five TDs 11/12/1995●1996 Packers vs. 49ers - Favre throws 61 passes in overtime win 10/14/1996●1996 NFC Championship - Packers vs. Panthers 1/12/1997球団公式サイトにおけるファン投票で選ばれたカードですので，最近の，特にQB Brett Favre時代の試合が多いのはしょうがないでしょう．筆者のような，90年代後半からのファンにとっては見たことのない試合も含まれていますが，個人的に収録されて最もうれしかったのは2003年シーズン@OAKのマンデーナイトです．Favreの父親が亡くなった直後でありながらの神がかり的なパフォーマンスを追体験できます．1992年シーズンの，当時のQB MajkowskiをリリーフしたCIN戦も興味深い．この翌週から2007年シーズン一杯まで，Favreが延々とスターターを務めるきっかけになった試合ですが，今見ると「どこの者ともわからんやんちゃ坊主が，たまたま最後にうまいことやって勝った」という印象で，その後あれだけの活躍をすることになるとはちょっと想像できないんですよね（苦笑）その他，とにかくボリュームもありますので，長いオフシーズンを過ごすアイテムとしては最適です．なお，リージョンコードは「1」ですので，日本製のプレーヤでは再生できません．その点はご注意を．追記：1997年シーズンの，「負けた方の」Super Bowl XXXIIについては，こちらをご利用下さい： NFL Greatest Games: Denver Broncos Greatest Games [DVD] [Import ] NFL Greatest Games: Denver Broncos Greatest Games [DVD] [Import