We’ve seen many quarterbacks with Rodgers’ résumé make a late-career switch from the uniform it long seemed they’d be buried in to a different one.
He may have had the most resounding debut for his new team. He’d played only one game his final two seasons in San Francisco, but on Sept. 5, 1993, he looked as if he’d never been away: 14-for-21, 246 yards, three TDs and no picks — and a QB rating of 146.0 — in a 27-3 thrashing of the Buccaneers in Tampa.
One ominous harbinger: The 37-year-old Montana hurt his wrist and missed the next game — a 30-0 loss to the Oilers — the first of five games he skipped in an 11-5 Chiefs season that ended in the AFC title game in Buffalo.Brady was 43 when he took his first snap as a Buccaneer after 20 seasons in New England, and though he crafted a storybook ending to the season by winning his seventh Super Bowl, it began modestly on Sept. 13, 2020.
In the Superdome, against the Saints, Brady was 23-for-36 for 239 yards with a pair of TDs and two picks in a 34-23 loss.Namath was just 34 when he took the field at Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium on Sept. 18, 1977, wearing a Rams uniform for the first time after 12 seasons as a Jet, but his knees made him hobble like an old man.
Nobody had looked more old-school stylish across his 17 years as a Baltimore Colt; nobody looked more out-of-place garish in San Diego powder blues on Sept. 16, 1973, at Washington’s RFK Stadium. And Unitas’ first game as a Charger was a nightmare — 6-for-17, 55 yards, three picks and five sacks — as Washington handed him a 38-0 trouncing. He played just four more games.The 49ers believed they were unloading a washed-up 35-year-old after 10 years, but on Sept.
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