Aaron Rodgers denies insulting Brett Favre when they first met
Aaron Rodgers was facing an unenviable task when he first joined the Green Bay Packers. The former star at the University of California was expected to one day take over for Packers icon Brett Favre when Green Bay selected Rodgers late in the first round of the 2005 draft.
The Packers eventually traded Favre to the Jets, clearing the way for Rodgers and leaving Favre bitter about how the situation played out. The two QBs have had an icy relationship that has been well-documented over the years.
The latest revelation of their uncomfortable time together comes in a new book “Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre”, which claims Rodgers called Favre “grandpa” when he first met the Hall of Fame quarterback.
Bleacher Report published the excerpt from the book, describing their first interaction like this:
Then-Packers backup quarterback Craig Nall backed up the account in the book, saying: "Brett couldn't believe that. It was like, 'Grandpa? Who the hell are you?’”
Rodgers, who said the account was “completely 100 percent false”, tried to set the record straight Wednesday.
"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,'" Rodgers said, via ESPN. "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.”
