OFFICIAL AARON RODGERS THE LIVING LEGEND THREAD

[texaspackerbacker]

Uh, having a huge ego pretty much goes with being a huge success. There's a helluva lot more humble losers than there are humble successes, even percentage-wise hahahaha.

As for idolizing Favre (and Rodgers too), you and others damn well should. All that shit you mentioned is 1. totally irrelevant and unimportant compared to the greatness on the field and 2. amplified if not outright made up by the God damned shitheads of the media who live to dig up crap like that and fling it around - against everybody, but mostly against the most successful.

And maybe idolizing is the wrong word. Acknowledging and respecting the results on the field and mostly ignoring the irrelevant shit, that's what ought to be fans' outlook on the whole situation.

[NewsBruin]

As for idolizing Favre (and Rodgers too), you and others damn well should. All that shit you mentioned is 1. totally irrelevant and unimportant compared to the greatness on the field and 2. amplified if not outright made up by the God damned shitheads of the media who live to dig up crap like that and fling it around - against everybody, but mostly against the most successful.

Tex, are you the guy who yells 'Freebird!" at every concert?

Brett (and Bus Cook) had plenty of backchannels and reporters on speed dial during his playing days. There was never a production meeting or a night-before reporters' dinner that didn't have a place setting for him. I only spent one summer full-length in Wisconsin, but I kept up online, and the stories were "Brett loves deer hunting on his off-day! Brett's back and healthier than ever! Brett's lightened his hair with lemon juice because his daughter asked! Brett's married his longtime girlfriend! Brett's become a better person after rehab! All the lockerroom loves Brett's down-to-earth nature and farting mastery!"

The guy more or less couch-surfed in Peter King's rec room during his quasi-retirements. The sports media practically had a candlelight vigil when Irv died.

Did you ever get a small-town paper try an exposé on Brett's nightlife? Did you hear anything other than maybe-genuine/maybe-coaxed comments from teammates about how much of a dude he was?

I get that to be a "source guy' reporter, you have to have sharp elbows, you have to sacrifice the best years of your life to always chase reactions, you have to seed GMs and agents with speculation and ideas, and you have to carry a whole lot of water from those agents to promote their clients' interests (maybe you're floating some negative gossip to kneecap their clients' competition). Access is the currency of the kingdom, and everyone in every compartment of the sports-industrial complex knows you're clawing and stepping over everyone else to extend what time you have in the spotlight.

But maybe, maybe, can you make an exception that Brett sought out the spotlight, that Brett (and Bus) used the media when it suited him, that his indiscretions were squashed as irrelevant gossip, that there was precious little fabricated or slanted, or even negative news about him until someone didn't like getting a promo pic of Little Brett and the Crocs?