Green Bay Packers star reveals savage prank Brett Favre pulled off on a rookie Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Rodgers is the leader of the Green Bay Packers franchise. It is hard to imagine him getting pranked in the locker room today. But things were different when he was a rookie.
It is an NFL tradition for veteran players to have some fun at the expense of rookies. On a recent episode of Bussin' with the Boys podcast, Packers offensive tackle David Bakhtiari and tight end Robert Tonyan discussed some of the pranks they were planning for this year's rookie class.
Bakhtiari said that one prank he wants to do is to put a rookie’s actual practice helmet on a table with a note that says “please sign.” All the players will sign the helmet, and the rookie will end up having to practice in a helmet filled with signatures, leaving him to be ridiculed by his teammates.
"You have some tables in your locker room...so usually on there, people put, like, their helmets, jerseys, a sign,...I am actually planning to do this at some point point this year. You take a rookie's helmet and you put it on the table with a pen and (a note) say, 'Please sign'. That's, like, a real helmet they use, (then) when they go out to practice, all the signs, like everyone's signature all over on (it)."
After he got done explaining the prank, Tonyan disclosed:
“Guess who did that. Brett Favre to A-Rod. Legendary!”
Favre was a known jokester in the dressing room during his time in Wisconsin, along with being exceptionally talented with the football.
He was the first NFL quarterback to cross 70,000 yards, 10,000 passes, 6,000 completions, 500 touchdowns, 200 wins, and earn victories over all 32 teams. He won the Super Bowl in 1996, along with three consecutive league MVP titles.
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"It involved basically a couple month process of taking diluted strand of the virus, so I was doing basically what the vaccine is supposed to do."
Rodgers has developed a reputation for failing in the playoffs after a mighty regular season. The pressure is on the back-to-back MVP to fire the Packers' unproven offense into the playoffs next season and make a push for the Super Bowl.
Their season kicks off next month against the Minnesota Vikings.
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