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Dealing with the Packers loss
Dealing with the Packers loss
MILWAUKEE -- The Green Bay Packers season is over following Saturday night's loss to the San Francisco 49ers, and on Sunday, Packers Nation was still reeling after seeing the Packers season end so abruptly.
The chance for another Super Bowl for the Packers came crashing down on Packers fans on Saturday night, as 49ers Colin Kapernick trampled the fans' hopes and dreams for the season. However, even with the raw emotions still evident, fans are finding ways to move forward -- albeit slowly for some of them.
Early Saturday evening, Packers fans were cheering wildly, but by the end of the game and into Sunday, it was eerily quiet in sports bars like Upper 90 in downtown Milwaukee.
Bartender Bryan Babler wasn't alone in the bar Sunday because Packers fans like John Smith were trying to move past the team's loss.
"It's a Sunday Funday -- absolutely. Taking (the loss) in stride. There's not much we can do about it now," Smith said.
Smith said a trip to the Super Bowl were his plans for a surprise for his girlfriend, but now those plans may have to be changed.
"I don't want to take her to see the Patriots," Smith said.
Just down the bar on Sunday sat Joshua Johns, who said he is also displeased with the Packers being ousted from the playoffs.
"I'm definitely excited for the Brewers now since it's all over," Johns said.
Meanwhile, Upper 90s chef Fernando Brigantti said just because the Packers lost doesn't mean it's all over.
"It's still football season. Until the Super Bowl is won, it's football," Brigantti said.
The biggest problem for bars like Upper 90 is the Packers loss means fewer people watching football next weekend. Had the Packers won, the bar manager says his place would have been filled with fans eating and drinking.