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NFL Greatest Games Series: Green Bay Packers Greatest Games

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This set is actually 10 discs and here are the games that are really included:

1996 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

That is true that Super Bowl II in NOT included. I'm very disappointed that games from the Lombardi era are not included. The 10 greatest games in this DVD are:

1996 Super Bowl XXXI - Packers vs. Patriots
2007 NFC Divisional Playoff - Packers vs. Seahawks
2003 Packers Vs. Raiders
1992 Packers vs Bengals
2003 NFC Wild Card Playoff - Packers vs. Seahawks
1997 NFC Championship Game - Packers vs. 49ers
1983 Packers 48, Redskins 47
1995 Packers vs. Bears
1996 Packers vs. 49ers
1996 NFC Championship - Packers vs. Panthers

Okay, I know we can't get the 60's Packer games, but really, I want to know who picked these games and left out some gems that Packer fans would've loved to see. This collection is missing (in chronological order):

1. Chester Marcol's miracle TD against the Bears
2. Packers/Cardinals 1982 playoff game (41-16 Packers)
3. The "Replay Game" (C'mon, how you can you NOT have that??)
4. Favre "closes" County Stadium with a game winning run against the Falcons ('94)
5. Favre to Sharpe to beat the Lions in '94 playoffs
6. Packers whip the 49ers in the Division Playoffs ('95) 27-17 to show the Pack is Back
7. Freeman's Miracle Catch to beat the Vikings 26-20 in OT ('2000)

Any of those I would have placed before the '2008 Seattle game and the Bear game.

Volume II, please!!

Product Description: The DVD includes complete television broadcasts, without commercials, of the top 10 Packer games of all time selected by Packer fans. The games included are:

1968 Super Bowl II - Packers vs. Raiders 1/14/1968. Vince Lombardi's last game as head coach.
1983 Packers 48, Redskins 47. Highest scoring M.N.F. game ever 10/17/1983
1992 Favre Comes Off The Bench And Stuns Bengals 9/20/1992. Favre replaced injured started Don Majkowski and never missed another start.
1995 Packers vs. Bears - Favre throws for five TDs 11/12/1995
1996 Packers vs. 49ers - Favre throws 61 passes in overtime win 10/14/1996
1996 Super Bowl XXXI - Packers vs. Patriots 1/26/1997
1997 NFC Championship Game - Packers vs. 49ers 1/11/1998
2003 NFC Wild Card Playoff - Packers vs. Seahawks - ("...and we're gonna score!") 1/4/2004
2003 Packers Vs. Raiders - Favre Stars In Tribute To Father 12/22/2003
2007 NFC Divisional Playoff Packers vs. Seahawks 1/12/2008

Only games for which the complete television broadcast is available are included in this DVD. Complete broadcasts for some significant games, such as Super Bowl I and the Ice Bowl, are not available, so they are not included here.

The Green Bay Packer Greatest Games DVD set does indeed contain 10 COMPLETE games.
In response to the reviewer who asked what fans voted for these games. There where 20 games that fans could vote from. Unfortunately "Super Bowl I" and the "Ice Bowl" do not exist in complete game format thus they were not included in the 20 games to vote from. "Super Bowl II" was voted into the top 10, however, Warner Brothers (company producing the DVD set)found that "Super Bowl II" was incomplete as well and the next game with the most votes replaced "Super Bowl II". This will be a "must have" for all Green Bay Packer and/or Brett Favre fans.

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 packages

These 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.

My boyfriend is a big Packers fan, so I bought him this set for his birthday. Since he received them, he has watched them a number of times. There is one MAJOR flaw in the set, though. The set that we received is missing the disc with the 2003 Packers Vs. Raiders - (Favre Stars In Tribute To Father) game, and instead includes a duplicate disc of one of the games with the Seahawks! This upsets me, because my boyfriend is a HUGE Brett Favre fan, and really wanted to see that game. Unfortunately, he is unwilling to part with the rest of them long enough for me to exchange it. So just check your discs carefully when you order this.....

(Redskins fan here) the 1983 Monday Night game vs. Washington was described at the time as a "track meet" and "The Olympics a year early". Washington actually had a chance to win the thing at on the last play, but Mark Mosley missed a FG at the buzzer.

These DVD's are great. It's so nice to be able to have them. I would recommend them to any true fan.

I would recommend that this product can be updated by including the 2011 Super Bowl XLV - Packers vs. Steeles 2/06/2011. The original and complete broadcast.