Are the Packers Headed to Germany This Year?
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Brett Favre is saying what we've all been thinking — the NFL is chasing people who don't watch football at the expense of the fans who built this league. Ryan breaks down why the league's obsession with appealing to non-fans is a dangerous path and draws a powerful parallel to institutions that lose their identity trying to be everything to everyone.
- Brett Favre's comments on the NFL losing touch with its core fanbase and why Ryan has been saying the same thing for years
- The Chicago Bears' stadium saga takes a hilarious turn as a Bears fan visits Hammond, Indiana and immediately regrets his enthusiasm — plus Halas Hall relocation rumors and a brutal 13.5% ticket price hike
- Mark Murphy casually drops that the Packers are likely playing in Germany this season, and why an 18-game schedule with two bye weeks could actually work
- The Packers' special teams coordinator search is underway with Tom McMahon, Kyle Wilber, and Cameron Achord emerging as candidates — and Ryan's frustration with the Rich Bisaccia coaching tree obsession
- Lions making Jahmyr Gibbs the highest-paid RB, Chiefs falling apart, and Brian Gutekunst set to speak at the Combine on Tuesday
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. I am your host and |
| 0:14.1 | resident fanalyst as always, Ryan Schlipp. Check us out online, packernet.com. Find me on Twitter, pack underscore dat. |
| 0:24.1 | Well, I just came across this that I thought was pretty interesting. |
| 0:27.2 | Brett Farr of blast the NFL for no longer appealing to true fans. There's been a slight shift. |
| 0:33.2 | I don't need to go through every single quote, and they definitely turn it more political than I would |
| 0:38.4 | intend to because I don't think it is. But I did find it interesting that at least I'm not alone |
| 0:46.4 | in this feeling that, again, this is not a bad bunny thing. I mean, it kind of is, but you end up in, in freaking politics anywhere you go. |
| 0:57.8 | It's so hard to not step in it. |
| 1:00.0 | When he says, or when I say true NFL fans, that's not a political party. |
| 1:05.1 | It's just people that enjoy what the NFL is. |
| 1:08.6 | And I think changing the NFL to appeal to people who currently don't like the NFL is a |
| 1:17.0 | stupid strategy because it leaves you hollow and empty. |
| 1:21.2 | What are you even presenting? |
| 1:23.0 | You're not presenting the NFL. |
| 1:25.1 | You're creating this mutant that is supposed to appeal to people in other countries |
| 1:31.5 | and swifties and all kinds of people that are choosing not to watch the NFL for whatever reason. |
| 1:39.3 | I won't get political, but I will get religious for a minute. You see this all the time with a lot of churches. |
| 1:47.3 | Rather than focus on what it is we're supposed to be focused on, we're so focused on everybody |
| 1:52.5 | else that is not interested in coming in here that we're going to transform ourselves into |
| 1:55.9 | something that makes us more appealing to the people that are out there. The problem is, |
| 1:59.7 | once you get to the point of being appealing to them, you no longer are the thing that you started out to be. And so you've |
| 2:06.2 | drawn them into what? Nothing. There's nothing left. That's my concern with the NFL. If you |
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