FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - One of the National Football League’s top off-season dramas came to an end Wednesday when New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers met the media after the first practice of training camp, answering the questions that had burned-up eons of talk radio and barstool conversations for months.

His trip to Egypt that forced him to miss June’s mandatory minicamp workouts was a bucket-list item he had booked based on the previous year’s off-season calendar.

And by the time he realized his adventure was going to create conflict, it was too late to do anything about it.

And what an adventure it was, riding camels in the desert, something he’d dreamed about for three decades since becoming fascinated by Egyptian and Greek history as a child in a gifted schooling program.

Yes, he mentioned the gifted part.

And with that, the page was turned to football and matters that might actually affect how many games the Jets win this season.

About an hour-and-a-half before Rodgers took the podium, head coach Robert Saleh told the gathered media there was an........

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