The phone rang well after midnight in the Sports department. It was January 2008, and the Giants had beaten the Packers in overtime in the N.F.C. championship game.
A Packers fan was on the line, calling from a bar, after having had a few.
But he wasn’t angry. He was calling to congratulate the Giants and Giants fans. He said the Giants had won fair and square, had won the line of scrimmage, and on behalf of friends at the bar and of Packers fans, he wanted to wish the team well.
(He made a joke about not being so kind if the Vikings had beaten the Packers.)
Nothing like that phone call had happened in my time in our office and hasn’t happened since.
From the post titled “Are Green Bay Fans the NFL’s Classiest?”
