Hope Clicks Eternal – The Green Bay Packers

Normally, I wouldn’t touch a 4-2 team for this feature. After all, I prefer to look into the morass of human misery & mine the painful-est rocks. But nothing was more painful on a fan base last weekend than this:

AND THUS THE HAWT TAEKS WERE BORN!

It started so innocently that Sunday morning,

https://twitter.com/packers/status/919609009946193921

So innocently, in fact, that the #MAGA crowd wasn’t even bothered. Just actual fans:

But as quickly as the game started, the collapse began.

What started as fear,

Aaron Rodgers walks off. Brett Hundley enters the game at quarterback #GBvsMIN

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 15, 2017

turned to realization as the news got worse,

Aaron Rodgers has a right shoulder injury, his return is questionable. #GBvsMIN

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 15, 2017

then worser,

Aaron Rodgers leaves game with shoulder injury

📰: https://t.co/xB8adles6L #GBvsMIN pic.twitter.com/KQeIOF1m1A

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 15, 2017

and, finally, worstest.

QB Aaron Rodgers suffered a broken collarbone. There's a chance he could miss the rest of the season.

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 15, 2017

Eventually, reality set in as the news became official.

#Packers QB Aaron Rodgers suffers broken collarbone

📰: https://t.co/yA63mUEnnd pic.twitter.com/VZFeC0v2X3

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 15, 2017

Packers fans turned to crying gifs, because words either failed them or just couldn’t express their level of despair. Based on my survey, it seems every twit Packers fan who tweets has one of these gifs on reserve for immediate use:

Of course, because the messiah got hurt meant there was no love for his injured disciples. In fact, that resulted in a widening of the blame.

T David Bakhtiari (hamstring) is questionable to return. T Bryan Bulaga (concussion) is out. #GBvsMIN

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 15, 2017

Finally, as the game wound to its inevitable conclusion, most fans entered the fifth stage – acceptance.

https://twitter.com/packers/status/919658693532139520

Fans were nice enough to the kid,

Hundley: I'll be better, especially with a week to prepare. I trust my offense. They know they'll get my best, & I know I'll get theirs.

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 15, 2017

but were more than ready to let the Beav have it.

McCarthy: As far as the QB position, Brett Hundley is my quarterback, Joe Callahan is the backup. That's the direction we're going. #GBvsMIN

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 15, 2017

Shockingly, or not – if you believe that leadership should be accountable, this is where the armchair patriots of the #MAGA crowd finally reared their obsequious head.

And, of course, there always has to be that one jackass that has to take things just a little too far.

Just asked @Favre4Official if he would come back to replace @AaronRodgers12 for rest of #Packers season: "Absolutely not," he said.

— Ed Werder (@WerderEdNFL) October 15, 2017

GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Then, when you don’t think it can get any more pathetic/worse,

Aaron Rodgers is possibly out for the rest of the season but there’s a Wisconsin-born QB who should be on our team! Lets makes sure the organization know we support Kaepernick to the Packers!

someone goes and starts a change.org petition, the last vestige of the truly desperate, because the coach & team “won’t listen to their fans”. Above is the actual language; as of Tuesday afternoon, they were up to 12,000 “signatures”.

The Packers response?

#Packers sign QB Jerod Evans to the practice squad.

📰: https://t.co/39zHZbiMPQ pic.twitter.com/PupVbFKvZw

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 17, 2017

At least one guy had his head on straight,

https://twitter.com/K_Dudley01/status/920395716371013632

Boneddigion a boneddigesau, your Green Bay Packers “Great QB Twitter Meltdown of 2017”.