The Green Bay Packers have been a very lucky franchise in terms of having elite quarterbacks. Just when the teams around the league were happy that Brett Favre was getting older and coming out of his best years, the Packers got a draft steal in Aaron Rodgers.
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The quarterbacks met for the first time on June 2, 2005. According to the excerpt from the book published by Bleacher Report, Rodgers and Favre’s first meeting was comical. As per the book, “The new quarterback approached the old quarterback and uttered what will forever go down as the worst introductory line in the history of professional sports. “Good morning, grandpa!” Silence.”
Another backup quarterback of the Packers, Craig Nall, talked about this story and said, “Brett couldn’t believe that. It was like, ‘Grandpa? Who the hell are you?'” However, neither Aaron Rodgers nor Brett Favre actually spoke to the author of the book. Due to it, later on, Rodgers claimed that this story was absolutely false.
Aaron Rodgers had a different angle on this story
As stated above, Aaron Rodgers had clearly claimed that the story in the book was absolutely false. Talking about how things actually went between him, and Favre, Rodgers said, “I’ll just say this: The first time I met Brett was on the practice field, and I could barely get a sentence out of, ‘Hello, my name is Aaron,'”
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GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN – JANUARY 02: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers walks off the field after the Packers defeated the Minnesota Vikings 37-10 to win the game at Lambeau Field on January 02, 2022 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
He added, “Did I call him ‘Grandpa’ at any time during the three years together? Probably. But it’s in the same joking way that my man Brett Hundley called me ‘Grandpa’ three weeks ago on the field when we were doing a competitive drill.”
Aaron Rodgers doesn’t shy away from correcting the media. This was another one of that instances. Favre and Rodgers still share a decent relationship with each other.
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