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Green Bay Packers, Jordan Love, revealed that he almost left football at age 14 in an article he wrote in “The Players Tribune” on Monday.
When love was 14 years old, his father committed suicide the summer after his first year of high school.
Love wrote that when football began in autumn, he wanted to quit smoking.
The Green Bay Packers Campo Marshal, Jordan Love (10) during heating before the game against the Chicago Bears in Lambeau Field on January 5, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Images Jeff Hanisch/Imagn)
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“When football began that fall, I wanted to quit smoking. It wasn’t even a big problem. I was a no one. I was the youngest child in the countryside, literally. My first year, I had 5’6”, 136 pounds. Maybe 5’7 “with my trucks on. I didn’t even make JV. I was the backup QB in the first year team. Only one guy,” Love wrote in “The Players Tribune.”
The Packers Campo Marshal said his mother convinced him to quit smoking and made him a deal.
“(Mom) he saw through me. She saw how much it hurt. I was simply not in my correct opinion. So he made a deal with me,” Love wrote.
The Green Bay Packers Campo Marshal, Jordan Love (10) in the field after the defeat against the Philadelphia Eagles in a NFC comfortable game in Lincoln Financial Field on January 12, 2025, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Eric Hartline/Imagn images)
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“She said: ‘Just give her one more year. If you don’t love at the end of this year, and want to stop, then we will stop.”
While love did not magically became a superstar that season, he said that playing allowed him to “forget everything for a few hours.”
“I couldn’t say no to my mother. I gave myself. I took the car … I went to practice. He moved on. And I wish I could say ‘the rest is history’. But it wasn’t history.
Jordan Love by Green Bay Packers executes a drill during a NFL football practice on Sunday, July 27, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Kayla Wolf/Ap Photo)
Love said without his mother, and “without that brotherhood of football, he would never have succeeded.”
“That football camaraderie took me from a really dark and lonely place. Through everything, the only thing I could always tell were my friends and family. There is no way that I was here without them. In no way would I have left Bakersfield.
Love is entering its fifth season, all with the Packers and its third season as the team’s holder marshal.
Last season, the team had 9-6 in Love’s openings, and had a 63.1% completion percentage with 3,389 yards and 25 touchdowns with 11 interceptions.
