Packers’ Aaron Rodgers wins Super Bowl MVP award (Part 3)
This is a continuation of the previous article, discussing Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers winning the Super Bowl MVP award.
The team started the season 4-4 and had just about had enough after losing to the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
After that, the Packers, led by Rodgers, won their next five games in a row with Rodgers contributing 1,324 yards, nine passing touchdowns and only two interceptions.
They lost the next game but then won the two after that, clinching a playoff berth with an 11-5 season record.
Rodgers set a record by becoming the first quarterback in the history of the NFL to throw for at least 4,000 yards in each of his first two seasons as a starter. However, they lost in the first round of the playoffs.
What do the Packers have to say to show off their star quarterback? According to their official website, number 12 has had nine games with over 300 passing yards, 19 games without throwing a single interception and 18 games with a quarterback rating of at
least 100 out of 32 games started in the regular season.
So that means that he has not had a single game in which he did not perform well. Either he had 300-plus yards passing, no interceptions or a 100-plus quarterback rating in all 32 games.
He almost broke the record for most yards in a single season in 2009, falling just 24 yards short of Lynn Dickley’s 4,458. If your bad at math, learn, but Rodgers had 4,434 passing yards in 2009.
Although, he didn’t break the season passing record, he did break the record for most yards in a postseason game when he passed for 423 yards in the NFC Wild Card playoff game against the Arizona Cardinals.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
In Super Bowl XLV (that’s 45, again for those of you who are bad at math), Rodgers started the Packers’ second offensive drive by overthrowing passes.
But after that, he was dead on. He went 5 for 5 for 69 yards and ended the drive with a 29 yard touchdown pass to Nelson.
Nelson set a franchise record for most receiving yards in a Super Bowl with 140 off of nine receptions and a touchdown.
"It was actually a screen play, but he [changed] to a go route. That's what we hit", said Nelson.
And when they did hit, Rodgers threw his hands up in a “Touchdown!” signal and hugged Daryn Colledge. He usually doesn’t run around and slap random players on their helmets like Favre did when he was a Cheesehead beloved.
But nobody cares about the helmet-slappin’ Favre now. It’s all about Rodgers. That’s why Cowboys Stadium, the venue of the Super Bowl, was filled with chants of “Aa-ron Rodg-ers” and “M-V-P”.
Most people thought that it would be Steelers’ quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, who would stand out in the Super Bowl. After all, he has already won two. Well, he did stand out but for all the wrong reasons.
Big Ben threw two interceptions in the first half, one of which was returned 37 yards for a touchdown by Nick Collins, so it was Rodgers, who was shining like a star.
"I didn't expect anything less from A-Rod", Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji said. This is the same B.J. Raji, also known as “The Freezer”, who intercepted Bears’ third string quarterback Caleb Hanie’s pass and returned it 18 yards for a touchdown.
He became famous partly because of the strange dance routine he performed, gyrating his hips to celebrate his touchdown. Not a pretty sight at all.
Getting back to the point, after Rodgers’ touchdown pass to Nelson, he threw another one to Jennings to put the Packers ahead 21-3 on a 21 yard touchdown pass. By then, he was 11 for 16 for 137 yards and two touchdowns. If you don’t include his bad start,
he was 10 for 11.
The remaining article about Green Bay Packers’ quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers winning the Super Bowl MVP award will be discussed in the next part. Take a look!
Continued in Part 4…
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