GREEN BAY, Wis. — Early in his career, way back when he was Brett Favre’s backup, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers liked to do some pregame reading.
After he put his pads on, he would sit at his locker and thumb through the game program that was provided to each player at Lambeau Field.
He’d start with the weekly features on current players and alumni.
Then he’d get to the section with all the team and individual records.
“I remember, I’d go through the records, and by the time I was maybe a third- or fourth-year starter, my name was in black on some of those records as I’d started to put up some numbers,” Rodgers recalled. “I remember looking at the number of touchdowns that [Brett Favre] had and thinking, ‘Oh my god, I’m not even at 100 yet. How could I ever play long enough to be in this same category as that?'”
Someday there will be another quarterback who says the same thing about chasing Rodgers.
Rodgers tied Favre’s franchise record of 442 TD passes on Sunday when he threw three in a 31-30 win over the Baltimore Ravens. Rodgers can break the record at Lambeau on Saturday against the Cleveland Browns (4:30 p.m. ET, Fox).
“That’s a special one,” Rodgers said recently, “just because of the history of the franchise and how long our franchise has been around and how many great players have come through here and the opportunity to be here 17 years and the longevity records Favrey used to talk about when he was here. To be part of some of those is pretty cool.”
Favre needed 255 games and 253 starts for his 442 touchdowns over 16 seasons. Rodgers, who’s in his 17th season, can do it in his 211th game and 204th start.
The biggest difference between the two, however, is the interception total. The gunslinging Favre threw 286 in…
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