Packer poles

Highs

• ironically, the first Packer high that comes to mind happened in Minneapolis. I was watching Christian Watson's 3-TD season-turnaround game v Dallas with my close Packer-fan cousins whom I don't see often, at a bar in Minneapolis. This game was big because my renewed fandom was strengthening at the time, the Packers needed a pick-me-up, my connection to these cousins was also strengthening at the time, and I was invested in Watson. Watson was supposed to redeem the Love draft pick and his season start was brutal. This game symbolized a new hope, for Watson and therefore for the post-Love-pick Packers. Which leads me to...
• Rodgers' last win as a Packer, game 16 v Minnesota, which I attended. It was totally critical, to make the playoffs, which felt impossible a few weeks earlier. And it happened, in flying colors. IIRC Jefferson had easily his weakest game of the season, Nixon who was budding had a beautiful return TD, and the Vikings were humiliated. It was needed and it was authoritative. See my Lows for how that story ended.
• blocking the Bears' game-winning field goal last year was pretty lit
• actually, didn't they win that FG shootout where nobody could make a kick? a few years ago. I watched that in Florida with some family and it was a mood
• the last year of Rodgers/Adams was so pleasing to watch, though it was the last

Lows

• game 17 v Lions, Rodgers' last season. IIRC Lions had nothing to play for but pride (spite?), hence began a new division rivalry. I liked the Lions until this game. But in this game I had to watch Jamaal Williams antagonize his former team and watch his current team squash a Packers team who could have done something in the playoffs. You might say they couldn't have, since they couldn't beat the Lions who had nothing to play for. But sometimes loosening up with nothing to lose is exactly what you need, and anyway the Lions proved in the succeeding years that they were no joke. They played us like rivals and thus became rivals in my heart, because this is one of the first Packer seasons I deeply cared about since before ~2010.
• Love's pick that knocked us out of the playoffs two years ago. I was glad it was Love who ruined it, since he's the one who built it, so I didn't feel too tragic about how it ended, but it was tough to see that season end. Things were only looking up, and they hung so tight against a tough team that game.
• Kevin King. No idea when this was, but he blew a promising playoff run
• Watson dropping that opening pass against the Vikings week 1. See my Highs for what he, and that season, meant to me. The Love pick was so hard to stomach, Watson represented our salvation, and he blew it immediately. He never quite redeemed himself, thanks largely but not entirely to injuries.
• playing SF and Tampa in those couple of years in which Rodgers couldn't beat them, especially when it felt like we were making a Super Bowl run

I remember things like Fail Mary, 4th and 26, and the Super Bowl, but they feel remote. I was a different person with different priorities; it's hard to even map those emotions to anything I've felt recently.