King of Green Bay: Aaron Rodgers Will Top Brett Favre with Back-to-Back Titles

When the Green Bay Packers inevitably win Super Bowl XLVI in three weeks, Aaron Rodgers will have already surpassed Brett Favre on the distinguished list of legendary Packers quarterbacks.

Favre of course got his only ring when Green Bay defeated the New England Patriots (with Drew Bledsoe under center, not Tom Brady) in Super Bowl XXXI. He and the Packers returned to the big game the next season, but were prevented from repeating by John Elway and the Denver Broncos.

Favre never played in another Super Bowl despite taking the Packers to the playoffs six more times in his career in Green Bay. In fact, he didn't take the Packers back to an NFC Championship Game until 2007, his last season with the team.

If Aaron Rodgers can successfully navigate through the playoffs again and collect another Lombardi Trophy, he will be only one of eleven quarterbacks in NFL history to win a second Super Bowl.

Moreover, Rodgers will have a 7-1 playoff record after only four seasons as a starting quarterback. In his career in Green Bay, Brett Favre had a playoff record of 12-10.

It's important to understand that I'm not saying Aaron Rodgers is a better all-time quarterback than Favre. Overall, Rodgers has a long way to go to catch Favre as far as accolades go. Favre has more career passing yards and touchdowns than any quarterback in NFL history. He was a three-time NFL MVP and an 11-time Pro Bowl selection. Rodgers is almost certainly going to be MVP this season, but this was only his second Pro Bowl season.

Still, as all the Dan Marino critics will tell you, how you do in the playoffs is all that matters. With his talent and all the playmakers around him, it's hard to say just how many Super Bowls Aaron Rodgers could win with the Packers in the next several years.

But all it takes is one. One more championship and he will have bested the great Brett Favre. And not because Favre lost favor with the Cheeseheads by taking a job with the New York Jets, and then moving on to the rival Minnesota Vikings.

I honestly think he will be remembered favorably by the folks at Lambeau once some time has passed and wounds have had time to heal. Favre spent 16 seasons in Green Bay, taking the team to the postseason 11 times. But he was only able to bring home that most sought-after prize, the Lombardi Trophy, one time.

Thus, in three weeks when Aaron Rodgers has earned his second Super Bowl MVP (Favre never even had one of those), only Bart Starr will be ahead of him on the list of beloved Green Bay Packers quarterbacks.