GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Marco Rivera found his way out of the darkness and back into the light. In fact, these days, he just might be the happiest stay-at-home dad in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
“Life is good,” Rivera, a three-time Pro Bowl right guard for the Green Bay Packers in the late 1990s and early 2000s, said last week on “The Distant Replay Podcast” on ESPN Milwaukee. “I’m having fun with it.”
His post-NFL life wasn’t always that way, as the physical pain of 11 NFL seasons -- nine with the Packers, and two with the Dallas Cowboys -- started exacting a psychological toll on him following his 2007 retirement.