Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers isn't happy with at least one part of Jeff Pearlman's recently released Brett Favre biography, "Gunslinger."
An excerpt of the book was recently released to the media that claimed when Rodgers first met Favre, he called him "Grandpa." According to those who tell the story, Rodgers' remark didn't sit well with the veteran quarterback, and was the start of a bad relationship.
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But speaking to the media Wednesday, Rodgers said that story isn't completely accurate.
"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.' 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."
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Here's the excerpt from the book:
Rodgers and Favre finally met on June 2, [2005], 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), [Mike] 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.
Pearlman spoke to more than 500 people for this book, but Rodgers and Favre (the two people who would know the most about their first encounter) didn't participate.
