It’s hard for a player to play 10 or more years in the NFL, let alone play for the same team for that long. It’s easy to imagine the connections you build during that time to be very strong, when you are around the same people day in and day out for a decade they become more like a family.
Friday night Jordy Nelson will be on the opposite side of the field against the team he was on for 10 years, and it is still chock full of friends from his time in Green Bay.