Green Bay Packers
The chat's second-most-mentioned NFL franchise after the [[Buffalo Bills]]. **237 corpus mentions** spanning **2020-09-13 → 2026-02-28**, with **192 attributed to [[Evan Bbbender]]** alone — the chat's most-explicit single-team fan affiliation.
Green Bay Packers
The chat's second-most-mentioned NFL franchise after the Buffalo Bills. 237 corpus mentions spanning 2020-09-13 → 2026-02-28, with 192 attributed to Evan Bbbender alone — the chat's most-explicit single-team fan affiliation.
The Green Bay Packers are, in Newfound Glory Hole terms, Evan Bbbender's team. Evan's 192 of 237 corpus mentions — 81% — is the highest single-member-share concentration of any NFL team in the corpus, exceeding even Matt's 43% share of Buffalo Bills mentions. The chat treats this as settled; no member has ever in the corpus contested Evan's primary fandom.
First mention
The earliest in-corpus Packers mention is by Evan Bbbender on 2020-09-13, in shouting all-caps:
"PACKERS TO RECEIVE THE BALL" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-09-13
This is the corpus's first all-caps NFL kickoff post and the form Evan would use, with minor variation, in approximately every Packers opening drive across the next five seasons.
The 2020 season — Evan's narration era
Evan's 2020 Packers traffic is dense enough to constitute its own genre. The chat's preferred examples:
- 2020-09-20 — "Packers have 85 points in the past 2 games" — first volume-statistic post.
- 2020-10-18 — "Packers look awful" — first criticism post.
- 2020-10-18 — "This is very bad for Green Bay" — first three-word despair post.
- 2020-11-04 — "It's very packers to give up like 200 rush yards" — first attestation of "very packers" as a self-criticizing adverbial form. This construction has not been productive elsewhere in the corpus.
- 2020-11-15 — "Packers remain the team to beat after their statement win against a very physical Jaguars team" — the corpus's most-self-conscious sports-talk-radio register.
By December 2020 Evan has settled into the chat's preferred summary-form first-person: "How about those packers" (2020-11-30), "Well packers have the 1 seed" (2020-12-14), and the Bills-coordination question "Bills and packers play on Saturday both so you know Sunday might be nice" (2020-12-15) — placing the Packers and the Bills (Matt's team) in explicit weekend-coordination.
Cullen as the Packers' principal antagonist
Cullen Conway's 2020-09-14 post is the chat's first inter-fan recrimination message and confirms by negative example that Cullen is not a Packers fan:
"I don't know if there is a worse way to start this season than to lose to Evan in fantasy, as well as the Pack" — Cullen Conway, 2020-09-14
Cullen's team lost to the Packers, and Cullen lost to Evan in fantasy. The chat's Cullen-vs-Packers vector is established here and recurs intermittently across every subsequent NFL season.
"Former packers great" / "former packers TE"
A small Evan-specific late-period sub-form is the former-Packers honorific, used to identify any retired or traded Packers player who has resurfaced in the news:
"Former packers TE" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-10-05 "former packers great!" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-12-19
The form former packers great — capitalized only on the noun — is the chat's preferred shorthand for a Packers ex-player whose subsequent exploits are now noteworthy. The form has been productive enough for Cullen Conway to extend it on 2026-01-30 (about a different team, in mock-Packers form):
"Either way a former Viking great is getting the Lombardi" — Cullen Conway, 2026-01-30
The Packers poncho
A 2026 single-message attestation of Evan's fandom-as-personal-superstition system:
"I took the packers poncho off at half time and I think that once you put it on you need to wear it the entire game" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-01-11
This is the corpus's only documented chat-internal NFL-fan-superstition statement and is the encyclopedia's preferred summary of Evan's late-period Packers practice.