Kuuuuuhn!

This Sunday's game against the Giants has to be one of the best we've played all season! It was amazing! On both sides of the ball too. Rodgers and Jennings were perfectly in sync. Driver caught one (or two actually) of those passes that only Donald Driver can catch, leaping into the air and grabbing the ball with his left hand! Wheeew! Rodgers had a fantastic night for sure! The defense was great, and there were so many interceptions and turnovers I can't remember who got what! But any way you look at it Manning and New York were humiliated.
My star of the game (and I've been saying this all along) is #30 John Kuhn with three, count 'em three touchdowns!!! I'll tell you it is a pleasure to watch that man play football. Fullbacks don't get a lot of credit because they usually get the short yard plays, and normally don't score. They end up doing a lot of blocking for the quarterback or the running back, and provide the opportunity for others to get the glory. I am glad Kuhn got to score, because he has certainly earned those touchdowns this season!
On many teams, a fullback position may not be important or factor into the offensive scheme, but for the Packers, and especially this year, the presence of John Kuhn on the field has played a pivotal role. The loss of Ryan Grant the first game of the season seriously botched our running game. Without a running game, the defense (of the team playing against you) has the advantage of knowing you have to throw the ball to be successful. Thus they play closer to the receivers (man to man coverage) and limit catches. But Kuhn (along with Brandon Jackson and even Aaron Rodgers) has brought the running game back. We may not be the best at it, but we are getting yards, and we are getting touchdowns off the run, which changes how another teams defense has to play us. Now they have to try to cover both the run and the pass, and that means we will have more opportunity for big plays.

Khun #30 (Photo borrowed from here)

On third down and a couple yards, Kuhn is unstoppable. And that is why he is so valuable. He doesn't get the first down half the time, he gets it every time. His consistency is unbelievable. He simply doesn't stop moving until he has the first down. I don't know how he does it. It's like it doesn't even cross his mind that he might not make it. He just pushes through. Even when you watch it in slow motion it seems impossible that he could shove his way through an entire wall of defensive linemen, but then he just does it. The defense of the other team seems as surprised as I am half the time. They are like "How did that happen?!?" I have no idea.
Kuhn's performance against Chicago earlier in the season, and many other games was so spectacular that I was confused when they didn't have him on the field for the game against Detroit, and New England. I am not saying I don't like Jackson, but there were many situations where Kuhn would have gotten the first down, but McCarthy didn't even have him on the field! Anyway,I guess that's in the past, and I hope McCarthy has learned how valuable Kuhn is to the team.
This past weeks game was a fun one to watch for sure. Our normal hotel-bar was closed, so we found ourselves racing around town trying to find somewhere else to watch the game. The place we ended up had the Packers vs. Giants game playing on the big screen! It was pretty sweet! We had sound and everything! When Jordy Nelson got the first touchdown there were a few other Packer Backers clapping with us and we were pretty stoked. We thought, wow! this is pretty cool. But when the Giant's scored their first TD the place erupted. We were outnumbered at least 3:1. And then there was this douche-bag Giant's fan sitting at a table in front of us talking all kinds of ignorant sh*t about the Packers and directing it over his shoulder at us specifically. (He kind of looked like cousin Eddie from National Lampoons.) I was getting really pissed and was almost ready to go over there and give him a  piece of my mind, but my boyfriend told me to calm down and watch the game. As it turned out he and that belligerent sack of rat-poop got into a bit of a shouting match. It was awesome. The guy was saying stuff about how awesome the Giants were in the 08 playoffs, and my boyfriend was like (paraphrasing) "And...? You realize that was 3 years ago and in the past right? Now it's 2010 and they suck. So what's your point?" LOL! Anyway, he left at the end of the 3rd quarter and no one else bothered us after that. We stayed to the very end even though we didn't need to. As a fan you must savor every second of a victory like that, they're why you become a fan in the first place!
OK. Now we just need to beat Chicago! Go Packers! And one more shout for Kuuuuuuuuhn!