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Green Bay Packers Quarterback Jordan Love revealed that he almost stopped football at 14 years old in an article he wrote in “The Players Tribune” on Monday.
When love was 14 years old, his father committed suicide in the summer after his first -year high school.
Love wrote that when football began in the fall he would quit.
Green Bay Packers Quarterback Jordan Love (10) during warm -ups ahead of the game against Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field on January 5, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Jeff Hanisch/Imag photos)
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“When football started that fall, I would quit. It wasn’t even so big of a deal. I was none. I was the smallest child on the field – literally. My first year I was 5’6,” 136 pounds. Maybe 5’7 “with my vans on. I didn’t even make cf. I was backup qb on the beginner team. Just a guy,” Love wrote in “The Players Tribune.”
Packers Quarterback said his mother spoke him out of quitting and making him a deal.
“(Mother) looked right through me. She saw how much I hurt. I just wasn’t in my real mind. So she made an appointment with me,” wrote Love.
Green Bay Packers Quarterback Jordan Love (10) on the field after loss to Philadelphia Eagles in an NFC Wild Card game at Lincoln Financial Field on January 12, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Eric Hartline/Imag- Pictures)
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“She said, ‘Just give it a year more. If you don’t love it at the end of this year and you will stop, then we will stop.'”
While love did not magically turned into a superstar that season, he said that playing made it possible for him to “forget about everything for a few hours.”
“I couldn’t say no to my mom. I gave in. Get out of the car… .. went to practice. Continued to go. And I wish I could say ‘the rest is history.’ But that wasn’t history.
Green Bay Packers’ Jordan Love runs an exercise during an NFL football exercise on Sunday 27 July 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Kayla Wolf/AP -Photo)
Love said without his mother, and “Without that fraternity of football, I would never have done it.”
“That camera of football took me out of a really dark and lonely place. Through everything was the one thing that I could always trust, my friends and family. There is just no way I would be here without them. No way I would have done it out of Bakersfield. No way in hell I would be quarterback of Green Bay Packers,” said Love.
Love goes into its fifth season, all with Packers, and his third season as the team’s starting quarterback.
Last season, the team was 9-6 in Love’s Starts and he had a completion rate of 63.1% with 3,389 yards and 25 touchdowns with 11 interceptions.
