Time truly is a flat circle. Example 10,000: we're still talking about the Brett Favre-Aaron Rodgers drama.
We all remember it like it was yesterday: Favre hated the idea of being replaced. He was openly dismissive of Rodgers when he first arrived in Green Bay, and things got nice and awkward for a few years there until Favre left.
It clearly left a bad taste in Rodgers' mouth – is he the way he is because Favre's the way Favre is???? – and in the latest totally-normal documentary about Rodgers, he talks about how that impacted his interactions with current Green Bay Packers QB Jordan Love.
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Aaron Rodgers clearly isn't over how Brett Favre first treated him when the Packers drafted him
"I had a chance to do it a little better than Brett did it," Rodgers said. "I was trying to engage with (Love), coming to a new team, and all the emotions I knew he would experience with being away from home, and everything was new. I would stop film sessions to let him know what I was thinking, why I did a certain thing. I was making sure he was over at the house multiple times, and he was invited to things. I just tried to make it as easy as I could for him, and help him maybe have a better experience than I did."
Sighhhhh. This almost makes Rodgers seem like a nice guy. Stop yelling at me, I said almost. To be fair to him, teammates of his have always talked about how good of a guy he is to be with. It's gotta be something that you don't understand unless you're in that locker room, but enough guys have said it for me to believe it.
Also, the bar being set at "nicer than Brett Favre" isn't exactly impressive, but whatever. It seems like normal decency shouldn't be a reason why we all give Rodgers a round of applause, but we are talking about his *Netflix Documentary,* so that ship probably already sailed.
Given all the other weird soundbites in Rodgers' new documentary, this one comes across especially ... human? Vulnerable, even?
Aaron Rodgers: probably a good teammate to some guys, I think. Brett Favre: less so.