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We're pretty used to professional sports teams and leagues making ridiculous policies for their Web sites. But the Green Bay Packers might have just taken the taco.
As discovered by Packer Backer Blog, the Packers have a "policy" that requires anyone who links to the Packers' home page — anyone who links there — to link ONLY to Packers.com, and not to any internal page. It all says so right there on their "copyright" page ... but whoops, there we went, linking internally again! Don't sue, Packers!
Other sites may link without prior permission to the home page of the Green Bay Packers, www.packers.com, (the "Service") only through a plain-text link. Permission must otherwise be granted by us in writing for any other type of link to the Service and/or copyright content owned by the Green Bay Packers.
Seriously: The Packers claim that their "copyright" says you can't link to anything but their homepage. Shame, too, because we'd just love to link to that ProShop. Oh well!
According to the site, to link to an internal page, "you may write to Jeff Blumb, Director of Public Relations, 1265 Lombardi Avenue, Green Bay, WI 54304.."
They also have some rules for anyone who links to the front page. They are:
• (a) shall not create a frame, browser or border environment around any of the content of the Service;
We have no idea what this means, but sure!
• (b) may link to, but not replicate, Service content;
Well, then, we're totally not entering this essay contest.
• (c) shall not imply that the Green Bay Packers are endorsing or sponsoring it or its products or services;
OK, we're not implying it, we're saying it: "Will Leitch" is an alias for A.J. Hawk. He's been writing this site from the beginning. The Packers love Deadspin and constantly give it backrubs and reach arounds.
• (d) shall not present false information about the Green Bay Packers or its products or services;
The Packers are going to be awesome this year, and they are clearly revolutionaries in the world of Web content. Absolutely!
• (e) shall not use Green Bay Packers trademarks without prior written permission from the Green Bay Packers;
Does that count as a trademark? Or just an "implied endorsement" not to use that service. (No, not "Service." Just service.)
• (f) shall not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive or controversial.
Whew. We think we covered all that's required of us. Now, thankfully, we're allowed to link to the Packers home page! Thanks, Packers!
Comments
Wait, so how am I supposed to link to Mark Chmura's myspace page?
only through a plain-text link.
Does that mean that Glitter Text is out?
Seriously, hotlinking is for chumps.
So Wisconsin has the internet on computers now...
Suss, use your magic to display Packers.com in a frame in a comment box.
Jesus.
Eli Manning is entirely too excited about wearing cheese on his head.
Yes my son?
Sweet, I have Will Lei....I mean AJ Hawk's jersey.
Does this make me a Deadspin All-Star?
@Monday Morning Punter: Only in "major" metropolitan areas such as Green Bay.
Elsewhere in the state they roll wheels of cheese with messages on them.
85% of the world works and the other fucking 15% comes out here.
Quit talking about Deadspin like that, Lee Elia!
What about linking to www.favrethoughts.gov.www\favrethoughts?
I'm confused. How do you make a browser made purely out of cheese?
Suss - Can you make a cheese browser?
@TheStarterWife:
encouraging Suss to kill Nibbles only makes him more famous
I read through all your thoughts, Rob, and "approve" which new ones are safe for public consumpton.
Leitch as AJ Hawk explains all the horse related posts.
Also, did all those guys get together that morning and decide they were going to boycott belts?
/fashion pet peeve moment
@PeteJäyhawk™: I believe today's post was going to be about how only Brett Favre could write a post like the post he just wrote.
Now that's a guy who just loves playing the game of football.
@Matt_T: what it doesn't explain is the lack of Rocky Dennis posts.
@Jake Fratelli: Of all the horrors going on in that picture, you're worried about the lack of belts?
i'm so confused right now
I didn't find that content all that fuckin' distasteful.
Go easy on them... In certain areas of Green Bay, they believe that linking can take your soul.
@Weed Against Speed: Thats big talk by somebody from minnesota
That's an impressive collection of sartorial splendor. Umbro shorts. Calvin pissing on a Patriots helmet. Doughboy Gym. Taz. Elastic, acid-washed black jeans. Everything tucked in so perfectly. Was this taken last year?
@Jake Fratelli: If your pants stay up on their own, no belt necessary. Also ties are completely useless. When was the last time anybody wore a shirt and wished that the neck was tighter?
@PeteJäyhawk™: I could swear the guy on the right tried to sell me meth at The Outhouse last week.
@Baba Ojé: Minneapolis/St. Paul > Green Bay
Do you want me to explain it further for you?
@Jake Fratelli:
2nd from left clearly said, "screw belts, let's roll with elastic waistbands!" and then tucked his shirt into his shorts. douche.
Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, the Bengals page requires you to link ONLY to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office for their latest news.
Deadspin grammar and style, when the editor mentions himself.
1st person: we
3rd person: A.J. Hawk
@Jake Fratelli:
belts with jeans? what is this, 1982?
@Weed Against Speed: I thought Minnesotans loved Green Bay. Dave Pirner was born there!
@Baba Ojé: I refuse to recognize you or Eli Manning's beltless mafia.
@twoeightnine: you left out the pack of Newports in the front pants pocket of the guy wearing the backwards baseball cap/cheesehead combination and the wacky mardi gras beads.
@Jake Fratelli: Then again, who at the Outhouse doesn't have meth to sell? And that includes most of the strippers.
@Jake Fratelli: how are these guys going to afford belts ? they spent all their money on cheeseheads and bad t-shirts.
How can Wisconsinites expect to use the internets if the tubes are filled with cheese?
Lee Elia and Robert Knight work in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay
Guy on far left: Mike Penner in his first foray into becoming a woman?
@Raskolnikov: Well, if Dave Pirner is from Green Bay...
2 of those guys tshirts are partially obscured so i'm going out on a limb here in guessing that the guy on the left is wearing a shirt that says "CURIOUS!" and the guy in the middle works out at "DOUCHEBOYS GYM".
the guy on the right just stopped by on his way way to a metallica concert to pick up a pack of newports.
Everyone should really hush about the belts when there are black jeans in the picture.
Look at that photo. And people from Philly are stupid?
@Raskolnikov:
Minnesotans loved Green Bay because they gave Minnesota their only useful player last season in Ryan Longwell.
I think he threw more TD passes than any Minnesota QB too.
The second from the left looks like the missing Mottram brother.
The packers should just change their homepage to the dancing hampsters page.
not pictured: guy wearing a pair of zubaz and packers tank top.
@Upstate Underdog:
I think that guy is there...he just changed
by all accounts the green bay pants party was a huge success
I'm sure all their kids are safe at home locked in their bedrooms.
threadjack
Bill Walsh passed away
/threadjack
@BigTDog: good point. i'm sure these guys have tailgating "uniforms" as well as game time "uniforms".
@Weed Against Speed: with a bucket of course.