The Search For Aaron Rodgers

"Every living sportswriter wanted a good Aaron Rodgers story. I got pitches for at least three during my time at Esquire , always with a long list of caveats about the topics his reps considered out of bounds (the most interesting ones, of course). So when he finally agreed to a profile without restrictions, and insisted the interview be conducted in the writer’s home, it should have been a recipe for the type of bland mush that makes up so many athlete profiles. Except the writer was Mina Kimes, so the story was filled with so much insight that I had to read it twice to catch all the perfe…"