By Chandler Brindley | April 25, 2023
Eighteen seasons, a four-time MVP and a Super Bowl champion. Those stats are hard to come by. Although every team goes through a shuffling of the deck signing players, cutting players, trading them away and so on and so forth, Sundays will be a little different for me this fall.
The appreciation that I had for #12 is probably a little over the top. All I knew growing up was #4 and #12. As I made my way through school and into my young adulthood, I always looked forward to Packer games and what Aaron Rodgers would do week to week. Was it going to be historic? Was he going to torch the Bears secondary again? A Hail Mary? A last second set up for a Crosby kick? All these moments will live with me forever. And then there were the times that me and my father talked on car rides or during holiday dinners with other family members. Rodgers and Packer football would be the topics of conversation for many of our family get-togethers. How Green Bay was shaping up for the playoffs and how Rodgers always gave us a shot at being in the playoffs were brought up every time.
People’s lives, including mine, stopped on Sundays to watch the greatness of one guy being a magician on the field for the NFL’s second oldest franchise. I know I surely will miss watching acrobatic throws, wondering how in the world he did not get sacked, the free plays from his long-count cadence, and of course, hearing “green 19, green 19, set!”
I will always appreciate the performance that Rodgers put on whenever he was in shoulder pads and a helmet.
Thanks for the memories, 12!
Chandler Brindley is a senior at UW Oshkosh majoring in Radio TV Film and is station manager of WRST-FM
