CHURLISH. I hold no brief for Mike Holmgren, but retired Packer general manager Ron Wolf's carping, ten years after the fact, is over the top.

It wasn't a great day for any number of key Green Bay participants, including the late Fritz Shurmur, coordinator of the defense; quarterback Brett Favre; and defensive end Reggie White. But Wolf kept coming back to Holmgren because the simplest solution was his and he didn't execute it.

In the just-concluded AFL-NFL game, the Giants evidently wanted that second shot at New England very badly.