Packers QB Rodgers Wins NFL MVP

(FOX Sports Wisconsin) - This isn't the way Aaron Rodgers would prefer to be spending his weekend, given that he's in Indianapolis, but not defending the Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl XLV championship.

However, winning the NFL's Most Valuable Player award isn't a bad consolation prize.

In a landslide victory, the Packers quarterback received 48 of the 50 first-place votes, with New Orleans' Drew Brees grabbing the other two to finish a distant second.

But Rodgers is not the type of player to be satisfied with his accomplishments. Sure, he won the Super Bowl last season and was named MVP of the game. Yes, he led Green Bay to 19 straight victories spanning nearly an entire calendar year. And now he's only the fifth Packers player ever named the league's MVP.

After receiving the award, Rodgers told reporters he will probably remember this season more for the team's inability to beat the Giants in the playoffs at home than for being named MVP.

While leading the Packers to a 15-win season, Rodgers set the league's single-season passer rating record at 122.5 and threw 45 touchdown passes and only six interceptions. Even without a second Super Bowl victory, that is a pretty good follow-up season to a Super Bowl victory in only his fourth year as an NFL starter.

"Hopefully we can win a couple more championships," Rodgers told reporters in Indianapolis, keeping his focus on the Packers' future and not just his current successes.

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