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Curious, I was coached by a former Missouri Tiger who thought Devine walked on water[metaphorically speaking] Didn't he bring the Packers back to a playoff for the first time since Lombardi? The only negatives I've heard about him have been from N.D,. fans and those were mostly about style and lack of warmth, basically he wasn't Ara. An unforgiveable sin apparently. Doesn't he have a National championship and a statue at Rockne Stadium?
I thought Packers fans hung Devine’s dog, not in effigy, his actual pet dog!
 
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I thought Packers fans hung Devine’s dog, not in effigy, his actual pet dog!

"Devine offered a detailed explanation in his autobiography, published in 2000. He acknowledged that his dogs wandered freely and created mischief; one turned up wounded during hunting season and was nursed back to health.

“Rumors circulated that some disgruntled fans or anti-Devine people had shot my dog,” he said in the book. “I honestly don’t believe that was what happened.”

“We weren’t so lucky with another one of our dogs,” Devine continued. “It was only a couple days later, ironically, when the dog wandered over to a nearby farm and began chasing the farmer’s ducks. The farmer, a neighbor who we knew very well, fired a gun at the dog, intending to scare him and get him away from his ducks. Well, the bullet happened to hit the dog and killed him. He had every right to shoot at the dog, and he knew it and I knew it.""
 
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