The rival Green Bay Packers are at the top of that list. Brett Favre needed six tries to win his first game there and finished 6-10 as the opposing quarterback,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, losing there in 1996 with the eventual Super Bowl champions. Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka loathed the Metrodome so much he declared it fit for no better than a roller skating rink.
"The volume in that stadium, when the fans get rocking, you can't even have a conversation on the sidelines. It wasn't just the snap count and the communication on the field. It's trying to communicate on the sideline to fix something, and you just couldn't do it," said retired kicker Ryan Longwell, who like Favre played for both the Packers and Vikings. "We'd walk out of here with a great team 鈥?and a loss. It obviously got into our heads a little bit." |
