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DAN MCGRATH ON THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS
April 26, 2023
Dan McGrath: Love him or hate him, Aaron Rodgers sure has been fun to watch
Crain's Chicago Business sports columnist Dan McGrath
Vacation season doesn't start for several weeks, but caravans of cars from the Chicago area have been spotted heading for northern Wisconsin in recent days.
It's Bears fans driving toward Green Bay to help Aaron Rodgers pack for his move to New York.
Can you blame them?
Rodgers' haughty "I own you" proclamation stirred up the fan base during a 2021 victory at Soldier Field, but embarrassment fueled the rancor more than anger, because he was speaking the truth.
He went 25-5 in 30 games against the Bears after succeeding Brett Favre as Green Bay's starter in 2008. He completed 67% of his passes (628-for-938) for 7,209 yards and 64 touchdowns, with just 12 interceptions. The Packers won one Super Bowl and eight division titles on his watch.
Whether it was Jordy Nelson dashing unencumbered through the Bears' secondary, Randall Cobb slipping past a befuddled Chris Conte or Davonte Adams blowing by any defensive back who dared challenge him, the common denominator was Rodgers.
And, at the risk of alienating everyone I know who follows the Bears . . . which is pretty much everyone I know . . . I like Rodgers. Maybe I should say "liked." Haven't talked to the lad in a while.
He was a hotshot junior at Cal back in 2004, and his strong play was a big reason Coach Jeff Tedford's Golden Bears were looking like Pac-10 champions and Rose Bowl participants for the first time since 1959. I was then running sports at the Chicago Tribune, which had always had a proprietary interest in the Rose Bowl, so I dispatched myself to Berkeley to see what the fuss was about.
Rodgers was a good story: From the little Northern California town of Chico, he'd gone virtually unrecruited out of Pleasant Valley High School, so he took his talents to Butte community college, where a Tedford assistant came across him while recruiting Butte tight end Garrett Cross.
Then as now, the Pac-10 was a throwers' league, and over two seasons at Cal, Rodgers threw it as well as anybody. Tedford, acclaimed as a quarterback whisperer, brought out the best in him.
Cal's sports publicist, a longtime friend, set me up with Rodgers, who turned out to be an engaging, unaffected kid, pedaling up to the meeting on his bike and thanking me for getting him out of class. The interview was thoroughly enjoyable, though Rodgers seemed as interested in asking me about the Joe Montana-era 49ers as he was answering questions about himself.
He struck me as a kid you could pull for. And I felt for him six months later when the NFL Draft's green-room coverage captured his increasing frustration as 23 names went off the board before the Packers finally took him at No. 24. He'd been hoping to land with the 49ers, who picked Utah QB Alex Smith No. 1 overall.
Tedford's reputation as a "system guy" might actually have hurt Rodgers, as previous products of the Tedford system Fresno State's Trent Dilfer, Cal's Kyle Boller, and Oregon's Akili Smith and Joey Harrington didn't do much as pros.
The Bears, picking fourth, took the late Cedric Benson, a star-crossed Texas running back. Their 2005 opening day starter at QB was Kyle Orton. It could be that angst over what might have been that fuels a Bears fan's antipathy toward Rodgers as much as the man's overall excellence.
Rodgers wouldn't be the first quirky Californian I've known, but I didn't see this level of weirdness coming the constant pearls-clutching drama, the deliberate misdirection over the COVID vaccine, the flings with movie stars and race-car drivers, the desire to play general manager.
Wonder how it will play in New York, where media types tend to be, um, a little more intrusive (and demanding) than they are in Green Bay.
Forgive me, Bears fans, but I remember that decent kid and wish him well. And love him or hate him, Aaron Rodgers sure has been fun to watch.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/dan-mcgrath-business-sports/aaron-rodgers-green-bay-packers-chicago-bears 
. WSJ just shills for Big Pharma.