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The Jets were a quarterback graveyard even before Woody Johnson bought the team for $635 million in 2000.
But the tradition has lived on.
Since 1985, when his No. 12 jersey was retired, Joe Namath had never offered to have it unretired until Aaron Rodgers rode into town with visions of a Super Bowl dancing in his head, and everyone else’s.
“I think if I don’t do what I know I’m capable of doing, we’re all probably gonna be out of here. … As you get older in the league, if you don’t perform, they’re gonna get rid of you, or bring in the next guy to take over,” Rodgers said last spring.