The National Football League headlines are falling onto the pages. Some read: “Rex Ryan still fat and happy after loss to Steelers,” “Multi-million dollar athletes still complain about not getting enough support from their league,” “Brett Favre keeps cell phone in pants pocket as opposed to in pants for a full day.”

This is a league that has never been shy about having a quality story to wake up to in the morning.

However, Super Bowl stories seek to go deep into the lives of the athletes who are soon to play in the biggest game of their careers.

These men are putting their mindset and usually all of their personal issues aside (insert a Ben Roethlisberger joke of any kind) for the opportunity to be crowned champions of the American football world.

There are obviously those guys who will get more face time than others in the media.

Despite his comments regarding injured players and the pre-Super Bowl team picture, there is still one guy who really does not find his way on the front page for all of the wrong reasons.

Aaron Rodgers really is one of those guys who you don’t have too much to say about unless you just hate him or the Green Bay Packers for no reason, like the Tim Tebow disease.

I have this disorder with Phillip Rivers, Tyler Hansbrough and everybody that plays under Mark Richt.

I have no reason to dislike those guys, but for some reason, I would rather go 15 rounds with a bear and a bottle of Jack Daniels than ever see those people on a flat screen.

Back to the point, Rodgers just looks like he thoroughly enjoys getting out there and tossing around the pigskin with a bunch of other guys that have about the same ambitions as he probably does.

Let’s get paid, do some commercials to help stop some disease that we don’t have, and get knocked around for another 10 years only to not be able to feel anything in our entire body 15 years down the road.

This is a man who stays away from the majority of headlines and just plays the game like a child at heart.

I never see Rodgers doing “The Dougie” or reading about his night out with Charles Barkley and Tiger Woods because Roethlisberger had to watch some films from last week’s game.

Rodgers is really what this game is about when it comes to just leaving it all out on the field and staying true to what the game is all about: heart, passion and professionalism.

After all, this guy did come in and replace the idiot gunslinger that the cheese heads loved and admired for around 16 seasons.

Even from his first snap as a full-time starter, you could tell that Rodgers was ready to be a leader of one of the most storied franchises in the history of the NFL.

He is regarded as one of the top quarterbacks in the league and his statistics from this past year don’t argue with that, almost a 66 percent completion percentage to go along with 28 touchdown passes and over 3,900 yards passing.

He is also one of the quickest quarterbacks in the league, piling up the third most rushing yards for a quarterback behind Roger Goodell’s Godson, Michael Vick and Josh Freeman.

I don’t know who is going to win Super Bowl XLV or why they don’t just go with regular numbers beside the Super Bowl name because I am not connoisseur of this league.

This matchup pairs two of the most storied franchises in the NFL and they have their names all over the record books.

This could also be the last time that we see a professional football game for quite a while because of the lockout that is looming and that is fine with me because as long as college football is around, we are all good.

There is one thing I do know. I will probably be cheering for the guy that plays the game because he looks like he loves it and not just so he can spend his money on not buying motorcycle helmets and ordering underage/forced lap dances.

I would also like to thank modern media and its many outlets for molding my opinion of the common man so accurately.

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