Appreciate the great.

http://www.packersnetwork.com/Aaron-Rodgers.html 

2005 NFL Draft



2002 High School Montage

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Apricot

I would like to thank the Football Gods for allowing us to have Favre and Rodgers back-to-back. I've been a Packer fan since '93 (before 93 pretty much followed CFL exclusively, but watched NFL games after the Canadian League was done for the year but had no team as we were pretty much limited to Bills and Giants games where I lived) and it is awesome to never have had a terrible team to cheer for. A couple of re-building years, but man I feel pretty damn lucky.

I also feel pretty damn lucky... I mean our teams have been winners (playoffs over and over and over again)... no they haven't won the Super Bowl as often as we have liked, but rarely if ever have our teams been completely bad... and honestly that kind of scares me, because in there has been so much bitching and complaining when the Packers winning...

What happens win the Packers are struggling in multiple season?
While fans that lived through the 70s and 80s certainly have some perspective... there weren't massive use of computers networks or the internet either.

But I think most of us Packers fans appreciate Aaron by R-E-L-A-Xing ... most seem to relax and say don't worry Rodgers got this... and that was even before Aaron come out with his saying.

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Also it's just simply fun thinking about the teams that passed over Rodgers.

49ers 1 QB Alex Smith (led in part by Mike McCarthy)
Dolphins 2 RB Ronnie Brown
Browns 3 WR Braylon Edwards
Bears 4 RB Cedric Benson
Bucs 5 RB Carnell "Cadillac" Williams (head coach jon gruden promised Rodgers, that if he dropped to #5, they would take him)
Titans 6 CB Adam "Pac-Man" Jones (jones only played two seasons for the Titans)
Vikings 7 WR Troy Williamson
Cardinals 8 CB Antrel Rolle
Redskins 9 CB Carlos Rogers
Lions 10 WR Mike Williams
Cowboys 11 LB DeMarcus Ware
Chargers 12 LB Shawne Merriman
Saints 13 OT Jammal Brown
Panthers 14 LB Thomas Davis
Chiefs 15 LB Derrick Johnson
Texans 16 DT Travis Johnson
Bengals 17 LB David Pollack
Vikings 18 DE Erasmus James
Rams 19 OT Alex Barron
Cowboys 20 DE Marcus Spears
Jaguars 21 WR Matt Jones
Ravens 22 WR Mark Clayton
Raiders 23 CB Fabian Washington
Packers 24 QB Aaron Rodgers

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That's true Beast. And also look at how many of those picked before Rodgers ended up being a bust!
It just shows that being a high pick doesn't mean "greatness!"

I have been a Packer fan since 1965, so I have lived through enough horrible football seasons to REALLY appreciate how good we have had it with our last 2 QB's.
Enjoy the ride Packer fans. It won't last forever!

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