Breaking: Aaron Rodgers and His Broken Collarbone Will Surely Break My Heart Again
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Aaron Rodgers still isn't sure whether he'll be able to return to play this season, but the Packers quarterback confirmed that he had screws inserted in his fractured right collarbone during surgery Oct. 19 in Southern California. Rodgers and the Packers are hoping the team will remain in playoff contention with backup Brett Hundley as the starter, giving Rodgers a chance to play again this season if his collarbone heals quickly enough. If the 4-3 Packers -- having lost 26-17 to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday in their first game without Rodgers -- are out of the playoff hunt, there's no reason for Rodgers to push to return before the season ends.
When Rodgers fractured his left collarbone in 2013, he did not have surgery. He missed seven games and returned for the regular-season finale at Chicago, throwing a game-winning, fourth-down 48-yard touchdown pass in the final minute to beat the Bears and send the Packers into the playoffs as the NFC North champions at 8-7-1.
Original story by Jason Wilde here.
I don’t care what the doctors say. I don’t care what the coach says. I don’t care if Aaron is just hanging out on the beach drinking Mai Tai’s waiting for training camp. Until the last snap of this season is completed, I won’t rule out Aaron Rodgers.
It’s the Murphy’s Law of being a Bears fan. If there is still air in Aaron Rodgers’ lungs, then Aaron Rodgers can break your heart. It is a dangerous time of the year to be rooting for the Monsters of the Midway. Things, dare I say it, are looking up. Our defense is playing with passion, we’re getting takeaways, Mitchell Trubisky is alive and more or less handing the ball of successfully- and yet I know, I KNOW in my deepest, sacred heart of hearts that Aaron is waiting out there in the darkness- just waiting to shatter me. One doesn’t simply leave the misery and bad luck of Bears fandom behind- no no, that shit sticks.
The worst part is he fucking knows it. He fucking KNOWS IT. Rodgers will be totally fine counting down the weeks until the end of the season. He’ll sit on the sidelines wearing a warm jacket, making faces at the camera, waiting to see if the Packers have a shot at making the playoffs (look at the NFC North, they will), and then he’ll show up in the witching hour and ruin everything.
We may have lighter years ahead of us as Bears fans, but mark my words, if it comes down to week 17 and the Bears need a Packers loss to clinch the Wild Card, then that handsome motherfucker will start and get the Packers a W. The collective hopes and hearts Bears fans worldwide will implode like a million stars dying silently in the quiet hours of the galaxy’s night.
It’s not that I don’t believe in my team, it’s that I believe more that we are cursed as a franchise and that I am possibly cursed as a person. We’ll look forward to better times, because we’re foolish and hopeful, and we think that next year Rodgers won’t do the exact same thing. But it has happened before, and it will happen again.
