The Packers Coach Who Gave Up

How bad was the 1988 season for the Green Bay Packers? Well, prior to week 6 and a game against the New England Patriots, head coach Lindy Infante was so resigned to the fact that his 0-5 team would not win a single game that he completely gave up on his goal for the team to win one game. Seriously
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[@DamonNomad82]

1988 Packers, for the first 5 games: "D'oh! Nuts!" For Game 6: "Mmm! Donuts!"

[@DolFan316]

This comment should have ten times more likes than it does. Seriously.

[@gordons-alive4940]

Majkowski could sling it before he tore up his rotator cuff in I think the '90 season. Fun to watch.

[@xman777b]

damm right he could. I'll never forget what he did in 1989. If Ron Wolf/Brett Fave was "Jesus" Makjowski was John The Baptist

[@robertwilloughby8050]

@@xman777b Agreed. Majik was very good, and positively brilliant at the off-angle, mid-range pass, which was his particular party piece - "No, he's thrown it across himself! Wait, it went to the right guy? Cool!"

[@SPTO]

Lindy Infante is an example of a guy who was far better suited to being a coordinator than a head coach. He's kind of a lesser version of Rich Kotite in that way.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Lovely guy, but far too soft-hearted.

[@ryanjacobson2508]

​@@robertwilloughby8050I'm guessing Packers management were ok with that to some extent considering that Forrest Gregg was a sociopath who presided over some embarrassingly bad AND dirty teams.

[@xman777b]

I can assure you, us fans gave up long before Infante did.

[@chrisguardiano6143]

This is very similar to what happened a decade later in the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers. To inspire the fan base & the players in their battle against relegation, Blackburn owner Jack Walker got on the PA system prior to their match vs Man United that he would buy the fans & the players a beer & soda (for the kid supporters) if they somehow beat them. Before I go further, I should point out that Man United would go on to win the treble (Premier League, FA Cup & the Champions League) that season. As for how the match vs Man United turned out, it did not end well for Blackburn as they lost 3-2 to Man United with Dwight Yorke scoring a hat trick. However like Lindy Infante, Jack Walker still bought the beer & soda for the players & fans which cost the club 8000 pounds or $10,000. Blackburn would be officially relegated the following week when they drew with Chelsea.

[@brianchandler1966]

Seeing the baseball infield,this game must have been played Milwaukee

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Yep it was!

[@Jason_Maier]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 I remember the video you did on the Packers/Broncos game from 87 (which they 'twisted the arm' of the Brewers to make a September exception) that tore the field so bad, a Brewers game was postponed)

[@madtownangler]

They used to play half their home games in Milwaukee back when they sucked

[@CTubeMan]

@@Jason_MaierNeed a Cognac to wash down your donuts?

[@msarzo]

I guess if I ever meet you in person, I'm bringing Munchkins

[@davidalexander8996]

Even taking themselves out of the Troy Aikman sweepstakes for 1989 they could have taken any one of 3 Hall of Famers right after: Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders (no relation), or Derrick Thomas. Instead, they took one of the biggest busts in NFL history with Tony Mandarich. While the Packers did contain Barry Sanders in the playoffs (twice!) who knows if either defender would have made the Packers the team of the '90s, especially after Reggie White came on board in 1993?

[@mkepioneet]

Literally held Sanders to negative rushing yards in the '94 playoffs! It's a fascinating topic to discuss if the Packers draft anyone else. At the time, it was seen as a steal!

[@DolFan316]

Exhibit A as to why it's so stupid for a horrible team to suddenly decide to start winning with 2-3 games left. I absolutely HATE how players for a team like that suddenly start yammering about pride. If you had any pride you wouldn't be so horrible going into the last few games to begin with!

[@RurbanWalker]

​@DolFan316 how did it hurt them though? Favre was a better QB than Aikman. Had they only used the pick on Sanders or Thomas.

[@chriswahl4139]

Lindy Infante gof fired by the Packers right before they got Favre and fired by the Colts right before they got Manning

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

Wait, didn’t Herm Edwards once say “You play to get the donuts.”? EDIT: I forgot Jim Mora’s classic “DONUTS!?” Postgame rant

[@CTubeMan]

The donuts are what we thought they were!

[@spectrevampire]

I remember when Matt Hasselbeck said "We want the donuts! We're gonna score!"

[@rngfootball759]

If not for the 89 season when they went 10-6 with the Magic Man, Lindy would been canned sooner. Who knows if the Packers would hire Ron Wolf and then Holmgren by then.

[@RealisticFisHed]

Probably the second-most infamous incident involving a coach and donuts occurring in 1988.

[@mrmoose6619]

Sometimes we find motivation in the strangest things....

[@Jason_Maier]

Yes, ladies and gentlemen; the Packers were a Lolcow (to borrow the UrinatingTree expression) operation from the post Lombardi to the year before Favre/Holmgren/Wolf arrived (68-91)

[@vernonrobinson1685]

The wilderness years

[@Fireyninjadog]

Pats only trip to Milwaukee and their last in Wisconsin until 2006. Also, curt gowdy's last nfl game

[@Jason_Maier]

And that was when the main NBC crew were doing the Seoul Olympics; thus bringing back veteran commentators

[@Fireyninjadog]

​@@Jason_Maiercurt gowdy also replaced dick enberg in the steelers-redskins game

[@andrewschultz6608]

I remember after the 1989 season there was a poll in Green Bay about the greatest Packers coach ever. I forget if Infante placed #1, or #2 behind Lombardi. He seemed very likable. It's good he had that one good year.

[@brianliddle2197]

Stadium Bakery was not 3 miles from Lambeau practically across the street. Behind a 66 gas station.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

In that case, Google Maps lied to me

[@madtownangler]

Once a player from the Packers ordered a hot dog from a vendor during a game. He was suspended for a couple games and one of the coaches quit. Another ten like thirty years later was busted sharing some hot dogs by the camera crew and John Madden did some squiggly lines and all that stuff. They were all fined

[@mkepioneet]

Reminds me of the 2005 Packers inexplicably beat the Saints 52-3, which was the worst loss for the Saints that season, somehow

[@mkepioneet]

Like the 2005 Saints were bad for many reasons including the fallout of Katrina, but the Packers were very beat up and Favre couldn't stop throwing interceptions

[@DolFan316]

You can have your donuts. What motivates me is seeing OGJ9's charts and graphs.

[@CTubeMan]

The game was played at Milwaukee County Stadium, so they saw a different kind of Homers.

[@michaellong3836]

This may or may not be a factor, but when Green Bay started the 1988 season 0-5, Randy Wright was the quarterback. When Don Majkowski took over the QB duties, the Pack won the next two games, against the Patriots and the Vikings.

[@calvandergrift]

If I learned one thing from this video, it's that donuts are awesome

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about Giants Coach Jim Fassel giving up late in a loss to the Packers in 2001.

[@tonythomas2391]

Dunkin' is alright JG9, but if you're ever in or near Canada, ask someone where the nearest Tim Hortons is. My guess is that you won't have to go very far.

[@DamonNomad82]

I just tried Tim Hortons donuts for the first time on a trip to Canada a couple of weeks ago. I brought a box of them with me through customs, much to the amusement of the agent...

[@derekjtaylor]

The Packers were on a sugar jag from those donuts 🍩 !

[@stfi7566]

Donuts…Is there anything they can’t do?

[@AnimalClans]

If I were to ever get invited to your Super Bowl party, as razor thing slim as that ever would to be, i would bring a party size box of Munchkins!

[@madtownangler]

What happened when Lindy Infante opened his fly... Lynn Dickey popped out.

[@brianjohnson3782]

Stadium bakery was right across the street from Lambeau field. Not three miles away.

[@TheDevilsKnot]

8 years later they'd win the SB. Crazy.

[@DeanZiegler-ru5jy]

Wisconsin grocery stores sell donuts at $1.49 each.. Good math. Bad team, but hoping to get some magic in future years.

[@jamesfinendale4898]

Infante we trusted. Local Green Bay residents should get this

[@elfofcourage]

You should do a What If episode on if Green Bay drafted Troy.

[@RurbanWalker]

No hamburgers until 60K subscribers?

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

Yea, its like doing a favor for someone because i want a favor.

[@GamerKiller2347]

Lindy Infante gave up the day before the Packers won their first game. The lesson is that you should never give up.

[@Robert-tb6gv]

You say that this was a really bad team. However, they beat the Vikings twice this season, both times very decisively (34-14 in Minnesota and 18-6 at home). This was one of the most shocking sweeps I have ever seen, and perhaps one you can discuss in another video. If the Vikings had won just one of those games, and all other games went the same, they would have home field advantage in the playoffs. Who knows what butterfly effect that would have had. Instead, they had to play the wild card, and then go to San Francisco, who would get them back after the Vikings beat them the year before.

[@joysticksnjukeboxes]

Nice guy, lousy coach. When his Packers teams managed to win, it was despite him, not because of him. Same thing later in Indy. My final straw with him was when he clearly benched some players in '91 (or was it '90?) just because. Real petty.

[@DolFan316]

The donuts also worked the next game, as they beat the Vikings by 20. In fact, even ater losing the next game, the '88 Packers had a +8 point differential after 8 games despite starting 0-5.

[@mgb4692]

And yet the Packers ended up sort of changing NFL history by sweeping the Vikings, who would have had home field if they'd won one of those two games. The Niners probably still would have beat them at the Metrodome, but it'd be close enough that they wouldn't have traded their next five years of relevancy for Herschel Walker

[@FlintGiven]

That is totally stretching his words, I get you can come to that conclusion but I don't think he was giving up by any stretch.

[@marcus813]

Those Packers seemed to shoot their wad in this game and their game in Minneapolis from a scoring standpoint. After those 2 games, they couldn't score more than 18 points in a game until their season finale, a road win over the then-Phoenix Cardinals. Of their 3 shutout losses (all on the road) in the interim, 2 of them happened in consecutive games.

[@vince065us.2]

Where does coach Infante rank, in terms of Packers coaches?

[@martensjd]

Did Infante actually give up? Did he ever say he'd given up?

[@randytracy1742]

Okay-I have a funny question to ask-the packers’ coach bought the doughnuts to motivate his team-did they eat them???😂😂😂😂😂😊😊

[@DolFan316]

BTW these same Patriots turned around and upset the 6-0 Bengals in their very next game.

[@mrnosaj71]

From here we pick Mandarich... yeah the 80's sucked for the Packers.

[@bronsonbamnallen1633]

Aikman would have went to Green Bay and sucked, then Favre would have never been there and the Packers would have continued to suck for the rest of my childhood and my life would be a lot happier.

[@nuwildcat90]

Of course, the Packers Tony Mandarich with that #2 pick in 1989. He can be thankful that Ryan Leaf exists or he'd be known as the worst #2 pick in NFL history.

[@mgb4692]

Robert Gallery and Jason Smith on the line. At least Leaf knew if you're gonna be a dumpster fire, *BE A DUMPSTER FIRE*

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

Packers content is hot right now.

[@rushbroussard5399]

Lindy Infante Said We Are Not Going To Beat The New England Patriots Back In 1988 So We Give Up When The Greenbay Packers Hired Mike Holmgren The Greenbay Packers Didn't Give Up They Went To Superbowl 32 And They Beat The New England Patriots

[@82dorrin]

Well, it worked.

[@danielbowden6330]

Anti-Motivation is delicious!

[@josh8006]

The 80s Packers were REALLY bad lol

[@ryanjacobson2508]

As a Vikes fan, I would say that the dirtyness if the Forrest Gregg teams was way more embarrassing than the W and L records of those 80's teams. I'm sure Bears fans would agree with me on that.

[@DavisWorthington]

@@ryanjacobson2508 Why are the Vikings purple? Because they've been choking since the 1960's

[@DolFan316]

They were the worst kind of bad, not horrible enough to prompt management to do a hard reboot but just bad enough for people not to care. In the '80s the Packers and Chiefs were each conference's equivalent of Siberia, where the careers of players and coaches alike went to die.

[@brianchandler1966]

Wasn't he head coach of the Lions team that went 0-16?

[@saubergt2390]

That was Rod Marinelli

[@waynetompkins3006]

Rob Marinelli I think.

[@brianchandler1966]

​@@saubergt2390thanks

[@brianchandler1966]

​@@waynetompkins3006 thanks