Aaron Rodgers pointed at the tables, with four chairs around each one, a screen pass away from his locker. He smiled thinking about where he was sitting.
It’s 2022 now, and Rodgers will tell you: This is different.
“One of the things that’s been really special is these tables are back in the locker room,” Rodgers said an hour after a brisk practice. “They don’t mean anything to many people, but they were gone last year [as a measure to contain COVID-19]. And when the media leaves, to see guys playing cards again in the locker room, spending time with each other? It used to be, with no tables in here, anytime we had a break, everybody’s just in their locker; no one’s talking to each other, everybody’s looking at their phone.
