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Local NewsPackers Fans Looking For Rematch with VikingsBy Courtny GerrishNext game: Sunday, January 3rd at Arizona MILWAUKEE - We're talking playoffs in the land of green and gold, is also leading to a bit of rematch fever. Fans are saying "bring on Favre and the Vikings." Packers nation is pumped about the playoffs, and now they're on the hunt for the guys in purple. Packers' fans have the Vikings in their cross hairs. Ask most of them and they'll tell you, payback is necessary. "It's hard for a team to beat a team three times. We're going to take it to Favre," Darren Chesner told us. It's possible the Green and Gold could be headed to the Metrodome in the postseason. Packers' fans are already smelling the revenge. Vikings fans...still confident. Anna Von Rueden predicts a game three would mean "the same thing that happened the first two times we played them," she told us laughing. But listen to Anna crack, as we ask her more questions. After a while she admits "that would make me a little nervous, honestly. Born and raised in Minnesota, but I know the Packers can fight." Exactly what Packer Nation is counting on! The Packers heading to the postseason is also good for business at places like Fanatics Sports Central in the Third Ward. A game three between the Vikings and Packers, would be huge. "It'll be exciting. With this place, with the fans that we have here. It'll be phenomenal, because it'll be wall to wall people," Nathan Tomczuk commented. And here's one for an early prediction. "We play them second round in the Metrodome and Favre will fail." |
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