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Aaron rodgers press conference7/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I like to just kind of speak from the heart, and it’s always served me well.” “I never want to predetermine answers and I really don’t say clichés. I like to be prepared.” He explained that Tom Fanning, an assistant director in the Packers communications department, keeps him up to speed on what’s in the news, which he then thinks about-but not too hard. It’s not much different in approach than a practice. “One of my toughest jobs in those situations,” Rodgers told me, “is to try and keep a straight face when I’m delivering a word or phrase that doesn’t seem to match my answer, the context, or even the question anybody’s asked.”Ī press conference, he said, “is a performance in some sense, because you are putting on a show for a lot of people watching it, hanging on your answers. And yes, it was there, in the Associated Press, The Athletic, and many others: “I think the Zoom meetings in the offseason were definitely my desert rose.” This, obviously, makes no sense. As I left the interview, I Googled whether he had succeeded. “He said I need to say ‘desert rose’ in an answer. He’s played a game that he doesn’t tell people about: Last season, a friend of Rodgers had a mission for him. He’s also interested in quirky comedy-everything from Norm MacDonald to Documentary Now!-so I was interested in whether he ever tries to channel that in his press conferences. In the void, he found two he’s loved: After Life, a Ricky Gervais show he’s obsessed with (he called Season 2 “phenomenal”), and Mare of Easttown, because he found Kate Winslet’s acting brilliant. Very few athletes can talk about The Hateful Eight as well as Rodgers, who by the way won the league MVP last year.īack in 2019, he was disappointed in the finale of Thrones and was searching for new shows. We’ve talked in the past about everything from Hail Marys to league changes, but hell, anyone can do that. He is among the best interviews in all of sports. ![]() The interview was a sequel to a chat we had in the last training camp media could attend in 2019, when Rodgers detailed his favorite bits of pop culture, especially the recently concluded Game of Thrones. California time and there was not a lot of brain function going on for me.” “Zero thought beyond that,” he said with a laugh about the hubbub. “They’re like a throwback to ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage.” The sunglasses were from his old teammate AJ Hawk. He said he was jet-lagged and had one thought about wearing the shirt: “This is going to be awesome.” And he was glad there were photos. The shirt was, it turns out, the first one he saw in his bedroom when he arrived after a late flight from California. Everything Rodgers did that week was seen as some sort of hieroglyphics to be deciphered, given his uncertain relationship and future with the Packers. He went viral last week after showing up to training camp in a shirt featuring an NBA Jam–style graphic of Kevin Malone and chili. Aaron Rodgers and I were talking about The Office, because of course we were. ![]()
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