Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers didn’t get the ending he wanted in Green Bay, but he said on Wednesday that the way things ended with the Packers isn’t a source of bad feelings heading into Sunday night’s game against the Packers.
Rodgers said he “would have loved to ride off into the sunset” after winning a second Super Bowl with the Packers, but he knew that was unlikely to happen once the Packers drafted Jordan Love in the first round in 2020. He said he has good memories of his 18 years with the team and said “absence makes the heart grow fonder” when it was pointed out that he was less sanguine about the departure in the past.
“I don’t have any animosity toward the organization,” Rodgers said, via Brooke Pryor of ESPN.com. “Obviously, I wish that things had been better in our