Nick Tsagaris McDonalds | NFL star loses father's ashes in end zone after four touchdown performance
Green Bay Packers might have got their first win of the season on Monday Night Football, but star running back Aaron Jones almost lost something far more important.
Key points:
- Aaron Jones was playing his first home game since his father died in April last year
- Jones caught three touchdown passes, the first time a running back has done so for the Packers since 1942
- Green Bay Packers beat the Detroit Lions 35-17
While celebrating one of his four touchdowns, Jones lost a necklace he wears with a little black football containing some of the ashes of his late father.
"I think the grounds crew is about to go out there and look right now," Jones said immediately after the game.
"But if there was any place to lose it, that's where my dad would've wanted me to lose it, so I know he's smiling."
Jones' father, Alvin Jones Senior, died from COVID complications on April 8.
"My dad's always taught me as a man, it's how you respond to adversity, how you respond is what makes a man really," Jones said.
"I think we came out and did a great job of responding. We played well. We played at a high level."
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)Jones became the first Packers running back to catch three touchdown passes in a game since Andy Uram against the Chicago Cardinals in 1942.
He had 17 carries for 67 yards and six catches for 48 yards.
As for the missing necklace, it took until 1:45am, but the grounds crew were able to find it.
Found at 1:45am Thank you to our trainer Bryan ”Flea” Engel I’m forever grateful 🙏🏾♥️🕊 pic.twitter.com/ylTlZ5Jpfr
— Aaron Jones 3️⃣3️⃣ (@Showtyme_33) September 21, 2021
"[He] found it, so we're perfect," Jones said on local Milwaikee radio show, The Steve Czaban Show on Tuesday.
"Thank you to him. He was out there until 1:45 [am Central Time].
"It shows how much they care about us."
Jones caught three of Aaron Rodgers' four TD passes and rushed for a fourth score as the Packers dominated the second half in a 35-17 win over division rivals, the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field.
The Packers, who got thumped 38-3 by the New Orleans Saints in Week 1, looked more like the team that went 13-3 in each of coach Matt LaFleur's first two seasons.
"I think that there's, even more now than when I started playing, there's so many overreactions that happen on a week-to-week basis," Rodgers said.
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)"So it's nice to come out and have a good performance and get the trolls off our back for at least a week."
Rodgers went 22 of 27 for 255 yards and surpassed John Elway for 10th all-time in passing yards with 51,633.
Rodgers has now followed up each of the Packers' last five regular-season losses by throwing four touchdown passes and no interceptions in his next game.
Detroit's Jared Goff completed 13 of his first 14 passes but struggled the rest of the way as the Lions (0-2) blew a 17-14 halftime lead in the contest.
Goff finished 26 of 36 for 246 yards.
"We just kind of kept shooting ourselves in the foot there," Goff said.
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