Leave Aaron Rodgers alone.
Seriously, what hasn’t the Packers quarterback done to win people over yet?
With a full two weeks for the ESPN hype machine to delve into every area of Super Bowl XLV, we’ve been greeted with a familiar face and question that not everyone wanted to see again, the ever-present aura of the great Brett Favre.
At Super Bowl Media Day on Tuesday, Rodgers was asked if Favre had contacted him about being in the Super Bowl or to congratulate him. Rodgers responded as he should have, with a simple and curt “No.”
As soon as it was thought Rodgers was out of Favre’s shadow this season with his high statistics, beating Favre’s Vikings twice, and Favre seeming to have finally been driven into the ground and out of the NFL, good old No. 4 gets his face brought back into the conversation.
While it’s not Favre’s fault in this case, the point still stands that Aaron Rodgers is a great quarterback in his own right, but it almost seems to be lost on some people.
I’m sorry he’s not God, I mean Favre, yet, ESPN.
Hopefully, Rodgers and the Packers will change all that talk on Sunday.
Reach the reporter at zcavanag@asu.edu
