

It’s impossible to find a perfect parallel for end-of-career Aaron Rodgers amid the constellation of future Hall of Fame quarterbacks who have changed teams at the end of their rope. Joe Montana’s arrival in Kansas City, for example, was celebrated like the moon landing. Had Tom Brady not arrived in Tampa during the earliest days of a pandemic, one would assume that he, too, would have been carted through town in something reminiscent of the popemobile.