Packers’ Rodgers has best chance at Super Bowl since first trip there
Soon we’ll see if Aaron Rodgers can climb the mountain that stalled Brett Favre.
How old was the boyish Favre when he earned Super Bowl MVP honors?
Twenty-seven years and 108 days.
With many football years ahead of him, folks assumed Favre would collect a second Super Bowl ring.
Only he never did, despite returning to eight Super Bowl tournaments.
“We’re a one-year wonder, just a fart in the wind,” Packers architect Ron Wolf famously said 25 years ago, after watching the Super Bowl in San Diego that favored Green Bay lost, to Denver, a year after Favre and Co. beat New England.
How old was Rodgers when he won Super Bowl MVP honors?
Twenty-seven years and 66 days.
Same as Hall of Famer Favre, who’d kept him on Green Bay’s bench for the first three years of his career, Rodgers has returned to eight Super Bowl tournaments without winning one.
Will the upcoming ninth trip lead to Rodgers raising the Lombardi Trophy on Feb. 13 in the Kroenke Dome, after the 56th Super Bowl is played?
Led by Rodgers, a former San Diego resident, the Packers have positioned themselves as the betting favorite to win the fourround event.
Green Bay (13-3) is the first team to secure a top seed.
The Kansas City Chiefs get the second-best Super Bowl odds.
Clumped in the next group are three teams: defending champion Tampa Bay, Buffalo and the Los Angeles Rams.
Of the nine postseasons for Rodgers since he handed off just 11 times in the Super Bowl XLV victory against Pittsburgh, the current one appears the most favorable.
Consider that in three of the four NFC title games Rodgers and Co. have lost in that span, three were on the road and the home defeat — a year ago — came opposite Tom Brady.
It should never be surprising when Brady, who owns six Super Bowl rings, wins a playoff game. Against Rodgers last year in Lambeau Field, Brady assembled a shining first half that Tampa, a