Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said Wednesday that he’s “bummed out” this week’s preseason game between the Steelers and Green Bay Packers isn’t at Lambeau Field.Rodgers, speaking with Packers reporters on a Zoom call, said he “100 percent” wishes this game was in Green Bay. The Packers traded Rodgers to the New York Jets in 2023 after 18 seasons with the franchise that selected him with the 24th pick of the 2005 NFL Draft, and he played his longtime former team for the first time last season. That game, a 35-25 Packers win on Sunday Night Football in Week 8, was in Pittsburgh.Among the greatest Packers ever, Rodgers’ No. 12 is almost certain to become the seventh number retired on the Lambeau Field facade. If anything, Rodgers said he wanted to take another stroll around the city he called home for so long in what he has said will be his final NFL season.“I was really hoping this one was going to be in Green Bay, not just to get back at Lambeau one more time, but to head out to Chives (his favorite local restaurant) for a dinner and maybe head out to Green Bay Country Club for a quick nine (holes) or something,” Rodgers said. “I was really hoping it was going to be in Green Bay for a lot of reasons. It would have been strange being in that locker room and stuff, but I would have found my way over, like many former players have over the years, found my way over to Flea’s office (longtime head trainer Bryan Engel) and hang out back there and see some of the guys and see some of the trainers and equipment staff and all the people I really care about that still work there.“Yeah, I was definitely bummed out that we weren’t in Lambeau for this one.”Former Packers must wait a minimum of four years after retirement before induction into the team’s Hall of Fame, so Sharpie Rodgers for a 2031 coronation in Green Bay. Has he already started envisioning that day?“Well, there first has to be an invite back,” Rodgers said, to which a reporter said there would, of course, be one. “We’ll see about that, but yeah, I’m always going to have such a strong tie to Green Bay and the organization. If that comes to fruition, that could be a cool deal.”Nobody has worn No. 12 for the Packers since Rodgers’ departure three years ago, and nobody likely will until the number is officially retired. As he did on a Zoom with Packers reporters before last year’s matchup, Rodgers used this time to reminisce on his nearly two decades in Green Bay.“So many great people in Green Bay, in the entire organization, top to bottom,” Rodgers said. “Just salt-of-the-earth type of people. And I think a lot about kind of the unsung heroes, the unknown people, the Larry Van Alstines of the world, who was our whitecap referee for so long at practice. We went hunting, actually pheasant hunting, a couple times together, but came close. He’s like a fabric of the team.“I think about (former Packers center and current team media personality) Larry McCarren, ‘The Rock.’ Like, just what a great dude he is and how many hundreds of games he called of mine, and just always loved the interaction with him. The guys in the equipment room — Kevin Nelson and Tom Bakken and Red Batty and Brian Nehring and Tim Odea and all the other understudies and obviously Andy (Gruber). Just so many, so many great people that I got to meet over the years that I never would have met without this game and that I still consider friends.“And then obviously all the teammates I’ve had over the years, who had such a big impact on my life, and still talk to a lot of them. A lot of the quarterbacks I’ve been able to be around and help mentor, and who’ve mentored me, and I’ve learned stuff from them. But if you miss out on the relationships in this game, you’re kind of missing the whole gist of what we’re actually doing. Obviously we’re judged on our wins and losses, and paid based off our production. But the thing that actually lasts the longest is those people that impact your life and there’s been a lot of those, a lot especially in Green Bay.”