This Sunday night, Aaron Rodgers will face the franchise he spent 19 years with as the Pittsburgh Steelers host the Green Bay Packers. It’s arguably the most anticipated regular-season matchup of the 2025 season until after Thanksgiving because of the history between the future Hall of Fame quarterback and the storied franchise from a little city in Wisconsin.
Few have the personal context of the emotional warfare Rodgers is about to undertake. As he said on Wednesday, he doesn’t see the game as a revenge opportunity. In a Thursday Zoom conference, he made it clear he intends to retire as a Packer and holds no animosity toward the franchise he called home for nearly two decades.