John Riordan: different ball game for Aaron Rodgers when he touches down in Big Apple

The veteran Green Bay Packers QB looks set to sign on with the much-maligned New York Jets.

EMPIRE STATE: Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers is on the way to New York. Picture: Patrick McDermott/Getty Images

Maybe Aaron Rodgers will finally swap one shade of green for another on St Patrick's Day. Maybe that was the plan all along.

Maybe by the time you're reading this, he has put pen to paper on his big money move from the Green Bay Packers to the New York Jets at the most annoyingly obscure time of his choosing and shortly after I filed this column.