Step by Step, Aaron Rodgers Making Packers His Own
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DALLAS — Green Bay is a football haven, charm oozing from every icicle and snow pile.
But even the most charming of Titletowns has its fringe elements. In 2008, quarterback Aaron Rodgers was booed in his first practices and in the first Family Night scrimmage as the team’s starter.
Another individual who clearly lacks life perspective keyed Rodgers’ car. Someone else wrote nasty comments on his driveway — in chalk — and somebody harassed him as he filled his car with gas, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Rodgers now smiles as he looks back. He admits that times were tough, but he has made it as a quarterback in the city by the Northern Bay. And just like so many other players before him, Rodgers has a chance to validate his ascension by winning a championship when he and the Packers face the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV.
That would be a big step for Rodgers, but just getting here required many smaller ones, all of which were important and logical, and all of which laid out a clear path to the Super Bowl.
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