You don’t have to be a Packer Backer (though I highly recommend it) to appreciate this article.
Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated:
Aaron Rodgers is the MVP of this teeth-grinding, palm-sweating Super Bowl, and it has nothing do with how he throws or how he runs. It has to do with how he lives.
In 50 years, when they write Rodgers’ life story, they won’t praise so much his freakish arm.
They won’t write about his Houdini feet.
They won’t go on about his grace under pressure, his rifle-scope accuracy or his courage while the land around him burned.
No, they’ll write about his unlimited capacity to forgive.
Through all the hell Brett Favre put him through, through all the yo-yoing Favre did with Rodgers’ career all those years, Rodgers never lost his patience. He never lashed out. Instead, he forgave and got to work.
Fast-forward to the biggest moment of his life — Super Bowl XLV — and teammates started turning on him again.
They started dropping the ball. Literally.
Read the rest here.
HT: Z
