Aaron Rodgers’ clutch play sends Packers to NFC title game

GREEN BAY, Wis. — He stood on the sideline biting down amid the bitter winter cold, the outcome of his first playoff game as an NFL head coach hanging in the balance. At that tense moment, as 40-year-old Matt LaFleur waited for center Corey Linsley to flip a shotgun snap into the hands of his 36-year-old quarterback on a frigid Sunday night at Lambeau Field, the rookie coach of the Green Bay Packers was anything but chill.

The Pack had withstood a furious Seattle Seahawks second-half rally fueled by the…