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No 'Grandpa' here: Aaron Rodgers denies story of his first meeting with Brett Favre
The new book, “Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre” by Jeff Pearlman is getting strong reviews. But at least one person mentioned in the book says a story involving him and Favre is false.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers took over for Favre as the team’s starter in 2008, but the Packers drafted Rodgers in 2005, so the two – the legend and the future – were teammates for three years.
According to a story in “Gunslinger”, excerpted on Bleacher Report, their first meeting didn’t go too well:
Rodgers and Favre finally met on June 2, when the Packers came to town for a seven-practice organized team activity camp. Now merely a head coach (and a disgruntled one at that), Sherman allowed Favre to skip the workouts, but that didn’t mean he would not attend. In fact, that morning Favre was alone, sitting in the team cafeteria and reading a newspaper, when Rodgers saw him in person for the first time. 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.
Rodgers surely recognized the mistake as soon as the words emerged from his lips. But there was no taking it back. “Brett couldn’t believe that,” said Craig Nall, the backup quarterback. “It was like, ‘Grandpa? Who the hell are you?’”
But on Wednesday, Rodgers, who did not speak to Pearlman for the book, told reporters the story isn’t true.
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“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. “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.
“The story that was out there that I saw is completely 100 percent false, and I would dare anybody to test my memory on that. You guys know how my memory works. The end.”
As noted by ESPN’s Packers reporter, Rob Demovsky, any animosity that once existed between Rodgers and Favre seems to have dissipated: they posed for a picture with Green Bay legend Bart Starr last year, and Rodgers attended the Pro Football Hall of Fame ceremony this summer, where Favre was one of the inductees.
