{"id":423843,"date":"2023-04-27T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=423843"},"modified":"2023-04-27T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:46:18","slug":"aaron-rodgers-changing-his-jersey-number-won-joe-namaths-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/aaron-rodgers-changing-his-jersey-number-won-joe-namaths-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers Changing His Jersey Number Won Joe Namath&#8217;s Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Rodgers was dealt by the Green Bay Packers to the New York Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers has a new beginning, which implies a new number. Rodgers will wear the<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLonFOX\/status\/1650603201375117353?s=20\"> No. 8<\/a> for the Jets since the No. 12 has been retired in memory of Joe Namath.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers&#8217; college jersey number was 8.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Rodgers had received Namath&#8217;s approval to don No. 12.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Although Hall-of-Fame QB Joe Namath gave Aaron Rodgers his blessing to wear No. 12, the new Jets\u2018 QB is expected to wear No. 8 \u2014 the number he wore in college at Cal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1650595748633780227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a big Rodgers fan, and I noticed that he wears number 12, of course. I&#8217;m thinking, well man, if we get him on our side, is he still going to wear number 12? Because the number was retired years ago,&#8221; Namath said on the &#8220;Tiki &amp; Tierney&#8221; show.<\/p>\n<p>I want to see the Jets win,\u201d Namath said. \u201cI\u2019d love to see \u2019em win a championship. We\u2019ve had a strong following for a long time, and I want not only the players to get the championship for themselves but for the fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honest to God feel like the fans have been loyal, and we deserve being, I guess, awarded a championship. But we\u2019ve gotta earn it. It\u2019s because of the fans and the way they\u2019ve followed the team over the years. There were some down years, we had some decent years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Rodgers on not taking No. 12 even though Joe Namath gave him the green light:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cTo me, number 12 is Broadway Joe.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KjWNbh9v0e\">https:\/\/t.co\/KjWNbh9v0e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1651291561907433474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Aaron Rodgers Changing His Jersey Number Won Joe Namath&#8217;s Heart<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;There are some iconic names that have played here, but there may not be one more iconic than No. 12,&#8221; Rodgers had remarked during his first news conference on Wednesday at the Jets Atlantic Health Training Center. I have heard him mention retiring his number, but to me, Broadway Joe is number 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to even go down that path, and I\u2019m excited about going back to my college [California] number.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Namath likes Aaron Rodgers even more after jersey gesture: \u2018Touched my heart\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PXDETZwxag\">https:\/\/t.co\/PXDETZwxag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dq2tRfFh9X\">pic.twitter.com\/dq2tRfFh9X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Post Sports (@nypostsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypostsports\/status\/1651329698234785795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Broadway When Aaron Rodgers explained why he did not want to wear Joe Namath&#8217;s legendary No. 12,<strong> Namath was moved<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was warm, that touched my heart a bit, that shows something about the man. He has a way about him, a lot of respect for the past. I was humbly grateful, you know what I mean? It felt good. It made me like [him] even more,\u201d Namath told The Post with a laugh. \u201cFirst time I met him I liked him, and I\u2019ll tell you what, I\u2019ve not seen anybody play better than him the times over the last 10, 15 years I\u2019ve been watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of speculation and discussion, the Jets finally made Rodgers theirs on Wednesday. With perhaps the worst quarterback scenario in football, New York finished the 2017 season at 7\u201310. The Jets now face expectations they haven&#8217;t faced in a long time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u8AqVSVI9qs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Aaron Rodgers Press Conference: Jets Introduced Their New QB\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/aaron-rodgers-press-conference-jets-introduced-their-new-qb\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Aaron Rodgers Press Conference: Jets Introduced Their New QB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Rodgers was dealt by the Green Bay Packers to the New York Jets. Rodgers has a new beginning, which implies a new number. Rodgers will wear the No. 8 for the Jets since the No. 12 has been retired in memory of Joe Namath. Rodgers&#8217; college jersey number was 8. Previously, Rodgers had received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":423844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7605,7606,5940,7607,2211],"class_list":["post-423843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-aaron-rodgers-number-8","tag-aaron-rogers-jets","tag-jets-news","tag-joe-namath-aaron-rodgers","tag-nfl-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}