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Packers Win In KC: The Wild Ride Continues

In two weeks we have seen Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers pull off two amazing road wins with huge plays late in the game. The football gods are smiling on Packer Nation but I’m not sure my heart can take this for much longer.

Green Bay’s 33-22 victory over the Chiefs featured seven lead changes, two big momentum shifting turnovers, one game-saving replay challenge and another patented deep throw from Favre to Greg Jennings. Everyone today will probably be busy rehashing the Colts-Patriots match or the record-setting plays from the Chargers-Vikings game, but Packers-Chiefs has to rank right up there as one of the best football games of the season so far.

Not that everyone involved played their best 100% of the time. For the second week in a row the Packers reached double digits in penalties for more than 100 yards. The sloppy play very nearly killed their chances to get a win. I can accept Al Harris and Charles Woodson drawing a couple holding calls, but Atari Bigby is threatening to become more a liability than an asset to the defense.

Thank the powers for Favre and Jennings, though. That 60-yard game breaker in the fourth quarter was a perfect throw and catch, a perfect example of what this team is capable of on any given play. I’m not hearing a whole lot of chatter out there right now about how Favre should have retired a couple years ago. When the man keeps winning it’s hard to hate, isn’t it?

But one of these Sundays, couldn’t the Packers just take a big early lead and then coast to an easy win? Seriously, I’m going to have a stroke if they keep this up.