In 1989, the Green Bay Packers almost made the playoffs. This is notable because it hadn’t happened in a very long time, and also because of young upstart quarterback Don Majkowski. Majkowski was drafted by Green Bay in the 10th round of the 1987 draft. The player who went first overall in that draft, Miami’s Vinny Testaverde, quarterbacked the division rival Buccaneers, but it wasn’t going well, mostly because the Bucs were one of the few teams with an even more incompetent front office than the Packers in the 1980s.
The Bucs used to be in the same division as the Packers and so they played twice a year, and I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention the second Packers-Bucs game from that season.