Three years is a long time to wait. Three years is a long time to dream.
For Jordan Love, three years is what it took for his phone to begin buzzing. First from a deluge of Twitter notifications, and then from his agent.
On April 24, Love was lounging in his Green Bay home when he received the news.
Aaron Rodgers had been traded to the Jets.
Finally, the Packers had moved on. It was now Love’s time to become the starting quarterback.
“I feel more hungry than ever,” Love told in an exclusive interview. “Honestly, having that time to wait, the waiting just makes [me] more and more hungry for when you finally get out there.”
While the hunger is there, so is reality.
Green Bay is moving on from an era which saw Brett Favre and Rodgers author three Super Bowl appearances, two Lombardi Trophies, seven MVP awards and two first-ballot Hall of Fame careers over 31 seasons.
Few players have ever stepped into a tougher spot than Love, who will be at the epicenter of the NFL’s smallest city while attempting to fill some of the sport’s biggest shoes.
