By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Nov 03, 2015 at 3:06 PM

The Green Bay Packers lost their first game of the season Sunday night, on the road against the undefeated Denver Broncos. They lost 29-10 and didn’t play very well.

Had you already heard that? Had you also already heard the clamorous outcry of an aggrieved and afflicted #PackerNation on social media following the defeat?

Predictably, for some, the loss was excruciating and the season now over, the sky falling and life rendered nothing but a meaningless exercise in grueling futility.

For others, it was a bump in the road on the way to bigger things, a welcome wakeup call or a deserved result for a poor performance.

And for still others, it was reason to ring the familiar refrain of "Fire Capers," a rallying cry for Dom detractors.

Cheeseheads are famously fervent and obsessively reactive, for better and worse. The Packers, at 6-1, have a better record than all but four NFL teams. But as Green Bay’s offense stalled and its defense struggled Sunday, and especially after the game, social media streams filled with the familiar sediment of distraught-fan sentiment.

The Packers’ official Facebook and Instagram posts about the game contained thousands of comments from followers. The tweet from the team’s Twitter page, which contained the #GBvsDEN final score, generated hundreds of replies but was a little more digestible.

We scoured those replies and selected our favorites, categorizing by rationality and distress the top five for each of the five stages of grief. Salty language was amended, emoticons deleted and, for privacy, names and handles were removed. Otherwise, this is how fans actually responded to the Packers’ first loss, via the team’s Twitter page.

1. Denial (#Delusion)

2. Anger (#FireSomeone)

3. Bargaining (#GetEmNextTime)

4. Depression (#Smh)

5. Acceptance (#GoPackGo)

Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.