Following Greatness Aaron Rodgers will Bring Lombardi to Lambeau

If history is our guide the sixth time is the charm for Green Bay Packers quarterbacks.  The two all-time great quarterbacks to don the green and yellow, Bart Starr and Brett Favre, each won league championships in their sixth years of play.  Aaron Rodgers is in his sixth season as an NFL quarterback, and seems poised to follow in the footsteps of these true legends of Lambeau.  

Rodgers has had an exemplary season to this point, on his way to guiding his team to the greatest sporting event on earth.  He has completed 65% of his passes for 3900 yards and 28 touchdowns.  His predecessor Favre put up similar numbers on his way to an MVP season in 1996.  Favre completed 60% of his passes for 3800 yards and 39 touchdowns that season leading the Packers to their first Super Bowl in almost 30 years.

Favre would go on to even greater things earning another MVP the next season; he threw for 30 touchdowns six more times, and 4000 yards five times after that season.  Starr would go on to win four more league championships after winning it all in 1961 and improve his passer rating seven times throughout his career.

In Rodgers’ sixth season in the NFL he has arrived on the grandest scale of the game and if we have learned anything from the Packers past he will take home the trophy named for his franchises legendary coach.  Not only that but he can be expected to improve as a passer over the course of his career just like Favre and Starr before him.

Sorry Steelers fans it’s inevitable, only one Packers’ quarterback since Starr has played for the team six years without winning Super Bowl.  But hey at least you don’t have to get your hopes up because now you know that history dictates that Aaron Rodgers has to win.