Ten days ago, we posted an image of the upcoming 2023 Green Bay Packers Yearbook, featuring QB Jordan Love. Today, we’d like to show the first time that our two most recent starters made their first appearance on the yearbook’s cover. Above, QB Brett Favre was on the 1993 season yearbook, a year after he took over for injured QB Don Majkowski in the second game of the 1992 schedule (September 13th at Tampa Bay, a 31-3 loss). He started his first game at home on September 20, 1992, a thrilling last-minute victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, 24-23.
QB Aaron Rodgers was drafted in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft, and promptly took his spot as the backup behind the perennial starter, Brett Favre. While he did substitute for a banged-up Favre (or in clean-up time in lopsided victories) a few times, he only became the starter after Favre retired (then un-retired) after the 2007 season. But he did not make the yearbook cover that year, or the next. His first yearbook cover was for the 2010 season in which the Packers would somewhat surprisingly advance to the Super Bowl. As we all know, that produced the team’s 13th championship in Super Bowl XLV.
