The divorce is final, the alimony check is in the mail and they've decided who keeps the grand piano and who gets the good china. For the Green Bay Packers, Mike Holmgren and his exploits are a memory, bittersweet and fading.
Life goes on and the vestiges of the old religion dwindle with each passing day.
And now it's time for the Packers to look to a future as uncertain as any they've known in the past decade. The most immediate question, besides whether they can pay their electric bill this month, is the upcoming draft. For the first time since coming to Green Bay, general manager Ron Wolf will run a draft without the considerable shadow of Holmgren looming over him. Reports have varied over the years about just how much influence Holmgren had in the draft room. Wolf has always said his head coach had plenty of say and Holmgren always contended that Wolf never gave him a player he didn't want.