GREEN BAY, Wis. — This is how it all ended for Aaron Rodgers on Saturday night: a football fluttering between the uprights, men in scarlet parkas scampering onto the field, snowflakes falling like so many opportunities lost and gone forever.
“A little numb, for sure,” Rodgers said. “Didn’t think it was going to end like this.”
A certain finality descended upon Lambeau Field as time expired in San Francisco’s 13-10 victory over the top-seeded Green Bay Packers, after Robbie Gould’s 45-yard field goal on the final play boosted the 49ers into the N.F.C. championship game.