1) Your team stinks

2) Your stadium collapsed this year  (just like your team)

3) You have no QB

4) You mortgaged your future to get Favre

5) You have 20+ free agents 

6) You have an unproven coach 

7) Your owner is an idiot....

AND  

8) You just watched the Packers win their 13th NFL title (which is 13 more than you have)

It's time Viking Fan.  Give up. Surrender.  Come over to the sunshine.  Join the Packer Nation.  Join the tradition of class, championships, a great stadium and loyal fans (the only blackouts we see in Green Bay are from binge drinking).

Let go of all that Viking baggage.  That's all it is.   

Baggage.   

Garbage.

Noise.

A weak attempt at a respectable NFL franchise.    

Burn your Viking gear (you won't be able to sell it), burn your season tickets (ditto),  tell your Viking friends you can't take it anymore (they are thinking the same thing),  

inhale deeply, become a Packer fan and then relax in the knowledge that you are now a member of something truly special.   

1) No more sexting.

2) No more playing at other team's stadiums because yours caved in.   

3) No more "empty trophy case" jokes  

4) No more embarassing blackout dates

5) No  more wearing purple and white (it may work for Prince,

but those are not football colors)

6) You can root for Clay Matthews.  Aaron Rodgers and Charles Woodson instead of Sage Rosenthals, Jarred Allen and whoever......

7) You don't have to wait AT LEAST 5 YEARS for another shot at the playoffs.

You see, unlike Viking fans, we are not bitter.  We have no reason to be.  Our team hasn't betrayed us countless times.   

We welcome all new Packer Nation members, wherever they come from.  Even Minnesota. Because we see what you go thru all the time and we THANK GOD IT'S NOT US.   

We understand. 

So come on over Viking Fan.  First beer is on us.  At Lambeau, where our stadium is named after a football legend, not a shopping mall.    

Lambeau Field.   

Where there is no dome.  No astro turf.  No pumped in crowd noise.  No tshirts shot out of a cannon.  No team mascot.  You know why?  Because that's arena league, low-rent bullshit. And you understand that now because YOU ARE A PACKER FAN.

TROPHIES.

And the actual POSSIBILITY that there will be more.  

Welcome Viking Fan.

  Welcome to the sunshine.