"It is but one brush stroke on a canvas of brilliance, and truthfully, not hugely different from so many other of his brush strokes. That's the challenge with trying to deconstruct genius. You try to choose a single highlight and it's as impossible as going into FAO Schwarz and trying to choose one toy.

But there he is, in the pocket, No. 12 in green and gold, taking a quick drop, executing a play-action fake. He looks off the defense to the left, where Donald Driver is running toward the end zone. He resets his eyes, draws back his right arm, and fires a football over the middle, a tightly-spinning fastball that misses three sets of Minnesota Vikings hands by no more than millimeters.

The ball lands in the hands of Greg Jennings, who races into the end zone for a 24-yard score early in the Packers' 45-7 Monday Night massacre over the Vikings last month, a four-second capsule of the 2011 life of Aaron Rodgers, who turned 28 years old Friday. Rodgers isn't merely the reigning Super Bowl MVP and the leader of the 11-0 Pack."