Much like Love, experience.

I wish I had an answer for this. When rodgers first started I didn’t have access to watch the games that weren’t nationally televised. So maybe 2-3 games a year unlike the last 10 years where I could afford Sunday ticket. All I do know is I am grateful now to have had a qb who just did not throw picks. Because of seeing that for the last decade + INTs make me irrationally furious.

Rodgers held the ball too long. He couldn’t come back against any good teams. Wasn’t/couldn’t win a big game. The standard stuff for new qbs in the league.

Right out of the gate he didn’t turn the ball over like Favre, for that alone, half the Packers fan base was on board with the guy.

Anyone who says they weren’t a believer was probably a Favre apologist. The Packer were also a different franchise then. Before Favre there was nearly thirty years of bad teams, a lot, and I mean a lot of people in the city of green bay were worried a downfall was coming again and that was why Favre was wanted by a lot of fans. As the season progressed and Favre had his typical(at the time, he would get good again Minnesota) playing through injuries and turning the ball over a lot season, more fans were won over by Rodgers.

To quote myself in 2008, “When Aaron throws a deep ball and on the television copy you can’t see the guy he’s throwing to, in that moment when ball is in the air, you expect our guy to be on the other side and catch it. When it was Favre and that ball was in the air, you were just hoping it wasn’t picked.” That was the big difference in my eyes.

Took too many sacks, held the ball.

It was almost exactly the same as it is now, just not as loud on social media. There were people who were ready for 12 to take over the minute the 2007 NFC championship game ended, there were people who thought the Packers should trade Rodgers and bring Favre back, and there were people who thought Ted Thompson was a terrible GM for what he did to Favre.

It was very similar.

• The fan base was split, either angry we didn’t do more to keep Favre/Rodgers even though it had been tenuous for a few years.

• The front office had a bad wrap from our QB

• League was excited to see us fail

• The season was back and forth, we expected to not make the playoffs.

What is different

• We had the one of the best WR core I have ever seen on the first transition.

• I remember the defense being slightly better.

• I remember feeling both times like we were in for rough years. However I actually think I am more optimistic about Love right now than I remember being about Rodgers in that first year. However year two by and the 2009 playoffs I new we had a career QB.

• The Stadium. I came to my first game in the early 2000s, I believe it was before the first major renovation, but I was young… the stadium went from a small town stadium, shitty video board to the 2nd largest in the the country with unbelievable scoreboards. Infact I stopped going to games because the cost/viewing experience was not worth it. The stadium is so fucking cool now. It blows my mind how different this is.

-Fanbase our fans used to be long time fans, we still had majority who had gone through the 80s. No where to talk a lot online. Now the fanbase is made of both but way more a generation who has only known sucess andare ready to eat the office and players alive during a 3 game skid. The split between love front office and get rid of them seems more extreme due to social media and such than it did back in the day