Updated 2022: An initial version of this story first published in June 2019.
With Aaron Rodgers claiming his fourth NFL MVP award, Wisconsin is strengthening its claim as the MVP capital of the United States.
In the past four years, Wisconsin pro athletes have won MVPs in football (Aaron Rodgers: 2011, 2014, 2020, 2021), basketball (Giannis Antetokounmpo: 2019 and 2020) and baseball (Christian Yelich: 2018). That's got to be some sort of record, right?
It requires some explanation, but there are several ways to argue that the Milwaukee-Green Bay fan corridor is the capital of the MVP universe.