GREEN BAY — What always impressed Aaron Rodgers about Bart Starr, the legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback and Rodgers’ longtime friend and mentor, was not his five NFL championships. It wasn’t his two Super Bowl titles, or his 1966 NFL MVP award, or his four Pro Bowl selections, or his 1977 first-ballot Pro Football Hall of Fame induction.
No, whenever you asked Rodgers about Starr — not only his quarterbacking hero, but his role model for how to carry himself as the face of the Packers’ storied franchise — he was in awe.
Not for what Starr accomplished as a player, but for the person he was.