Whereas Aaron Rodgers is undeniably an all-time nice who will ultimately grow to be a first-ballot Corridor of Famer, he however guided the Inexperienced Bay Packers to solely a single Tremendous Bowl championship throughout his tenure with the group that ran from the 2005 NFL Draft by means of the 2022 season.
Within the “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” Netflix documentary that debuted on Tuesday, he shared the attention-grabbing response he needed to main the Packers to their Tremendous Bowl XLV victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in February 2011.
“It was a particular night time, however form of bizarre what occurred afterwards. There wasn’t a fantastic get together,” Rodgers mentioned, per Ryan Glasspiegel of the New York Put up. “You’re form of exhausted, you’re sitting on the bus. It’s one within the morning. You simply completed the best factor ever. You’re like, ‘D— that was cool, now what?’ Now I’ve completed the one factor that I actually, actually wished to do in my life. Now, what? I used to be like, ‘Did I goal on the incorrect factor or did I spend an excessive amount of time eager about stuff that in the end doesn’t provide you with true happiness?'”
On the time, it felt like a matter of when and never if Rodgers and the Packers would once more play on Tremendous Bowl Sunday. Nevertheless, it now appears he’ll solely seem at one other Tremendous Bowl as a spectator or an honored visitor.
From January 2015 by means of January 2021, Rodgers and the Packers went 0-4 in NFC Championship Recreation appearances. It is unclear if the four-time regular-season MVP, who turned 41 years previous in December, will look to proceed taking part in subsequent season.
“Coping with success is among the biggest academics in life as a result of it could knock you in your a– a bunch, make you query numerous issues, make you attempt to determine who you’re. I used to be undoubtedly in search of different methods to form of refill that gap inside,” Rodgers added. “It’s one thing I wrestled with for a lot of, a few years. I had this sense like, ‘OK, is that this going to be the one factor I ever accomplish in life? Can I like myself if that is all I’ve ever carried out?'”
Over the previous few years, Rodgers had tried to “refill that gap inside” along with his much-publicized use of ayahuasca, a plant-based psychedelic tea, and likewise by way of “darkness retreats” corresponding to one he accomplished earlier than he orchestrated his commerce from the Packers to the Jets within the spring of 2023.
If nothing else, it looks like Rodgers does not agree with Tom Brady about relating life stresses to an absence of Tremendous Bowl rings.
