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Easier to explain is the effect White has had on the Packers and Green Bay. In his first year with the team, the defense went from No. 23 in the league to No. 2. "Other teams had to double- and triple-team Reggie," says Favre. "He also totally transformed the locker room." White's influence is not unlike that of Willie Stargell on the "We Are Fam-a-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates, except that the sounds in the clubhouse aren't disco but gospel. The other day, Favre took a ribbing from White after he asked if the gospel chorus some...
...only has White kept everybody in line--he loves to call meetings--but he has also made Green Bay a newly desirable destination. "Black players now know they have a home here," says White. He knew he had a new home after an autograph session a few years ago with Favre in Sheboygan, some 50 miles south of Green Bay. "We signed for hours, and the fans were so nice. When we drove away, I looked in the rearview mirror, and they were lined up along the highway waving goodbye...
...matter what happens in New Orleans, they'll always have Green Bay that Sunday afternoon. Under a sky suddenly turned blue, the fans cheered their hearts out as the players came down off the platform. Some of the Packers did patented Lambeau Leaps into the laps of the parishioners. Favre and White held the Halas Trophy together for a while, and then White took off around the field to show it to the fans. He was bringing to them what they had brought...
DALLAS COWBOYS Abandoned as America's team. Green Bay merchandise sales are gaining ground fast...
...Superdome, it was Ditka who coached a charismatic Jim McMahon-led Bears squad to a 46-10 Super Bowl rout over these same Patriots. But the NFL has changed. The little hiking minuteman is gone from the Patriots' helmets. McMahon, sans headband, is now a sideline-pacer for Green Bay. And Ditka, at 57, is five years a TV analyst, a veteran of hip and heart ailments who still has trouble with the fact that Bears refugee Jim Harbaugh turned into a decent quarterback. But the Saints, who never change, will need all of that old magic to fill...