The ESPN headline indicates that only cheese tops Aaron Rodgers in a public opinion survey of Wisconsin residents. Cheese gets an 80 percent approval rating, while the Packers QB is just below it at 79 percent.
That's all well and good, but here on this blog, we have been known to cheapen things from time to time. So we're taking information from the top of the story and the very bottom to cobble together the real headline: Rodgers' approval rating has dropped 10 percent in the last four years.
Yes, in 2011 — after Rodgers led the Packers to a Super Bowl title — his approval was at 89 percent in the same poll.
Since then, he's won two MVP awards … but a return trip to the Super Bowl, let alone a victory in the big game, has eluded his grasp. If you delve into the comments section of Packers game stories, you will find fans hyper-critical of Rodgers (which is crazy because he's thrown 226 career TDs and just 57 INTs).
So whereby it used to be roughly 9 of every 10 Packers fans who approved of their QB, now it's not even 8 of 10. Tough crowd. He's barely ahead of Bo Ryan (76 percent) and Barry Alvarez (71 percent). Everyone is crushing Bret Bielema (17 percent) and Gary Andersen (15 percent), recent defectors from Badger-land.
President Obama, who is listed at 6-foot-1 but in fact might be taller, has almost exactly the same approval rating in March of 2015 that he had in March of 2011.
