Aaron Rodgers flew back into MetLife on a green Jet… only this time he was wearing black & gold. 🛩️⚫️🟡
The Jets told him he couldn’t play anymore. They gave him the “20-second breakup speech” back in April. At 41 years old, he was supposed to be finished.
Instead, Week 1 turned into a four-touchdown reminder. Rodgers went 22 of 30 for 244 yards and 4 TDs, slicing up his former team while Steelers fans chanted his name in their house. He even opened the game with Pittsburgh’s first Week 1 opening-drive TD since 2008, then closed it with back-to-back strikes and a 60-yard Boswell bomb that iced the win.
Final score: Steelers 34, Jets 32.
Final word: Rodgers 1 — Jets 0.
And Rodgers didn’t hide the satisfaction afterward: “There were probably people in the organization that didn’t think I could play anymore. So, it was nice to remind those people that I still can. I was happy to beat everybody associated with the Jets.” 💀
The boos rained down. The Jets tried to show love pregame. None of it mattered. Rodgers got the best of them this time — and maybe, just maybe, Pittsburgh has one more run left in his arm.