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Watch: Rodgers on Packers honoring Starr

The Green Bay Packers are honoring the legendary quarterback this week.
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Watch: Rodgers on Packers honoring Starr
Watch: Rodgers on Packers honoring Starr

The Green Bay Packers, who are wearing No. 15 decals on their helmets to honor Bart Starr, will celebrate the legendary quarterback’s life this week in the days leading up to Sunday’s game against Minnesota.

Along with events on Friday and Saturday, the team will have a halftime program and ceremony to honor Starr. Dozens of Packers alumni, including some of Starr’s former teammates and players, will be in attendance.

“I understand how important Bart was to not only this team but the NFL – obviously playing in the first Super Bowl. So, fun to celebrate him the right way,” the team’s current quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, said on Wednesday.

Starr, who died on May 26, won five championships as the Packers’ quarterback, including Super Bowls I and II. Remarkably given how the game has changed, Starr remains the top-ranked passer in postseason history. In fashioning a 9-1 postseason record, Starr crafted a passer rating of 104.8. That’s No. 1 all-time. Only 14 quarterbacks have a playoff passer rating of at least 90 (minimum 150 attempts), according to Pro Football Reference.

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Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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