@Chongo posted:Great points GD...
I forgot who posted it, but they were bang on when they said this team needs someone like an Andrew Brandt to massage egos. All we have is the film nerd, the bean counter and Alfred E. Fuckface.
For the most part, not having a big-pocket egomaniacal owner is a good thing for the Packers. However, this is a time where it works against them. A guy like Jerry Jones (and many others) can invite their superstars (and maybe as important, their significant others) out to their mega-mansions, fly them on their private jets, and just generally show them off (which is really why billionaires get into sports ownership) at fancy parties.
I saw this somewhere over the last week (I don't know whether it was on the forum or somewhere else), but in Green Bay Favre and now Rodgers are probably the wealthiest people around. There is no one on the food chain higher than them to wine and dine them. Tom Brady probably had access to Robert Kraft's (and now the Glazer family's) yachts and vacation homes.
Rodgers probably has multiple homes bigger than Mark Murphy's main home.
We get jaded by how much professional athletes make and Rodgers is worth north of 100 million. While that is multi-generational wealth, it's peanuts compared to people like Robert Kraft (6 Billion), Jerry Jones (10 Billion), Kronke (9 Billion), etc. There is the same proportional difference between Jerry Jones and Aaron Rodgers (Jones is worth 100 times more) than there is between Aaron Rodgers and someone with roughly 1 million in net worth (there are almost certainly people on this forum with more than that).
Guys in Green Bay don't get the ego massage that some of the players with deep pocket owners do.