No One On The Packers Understands Aaron Rodgers Sense Of Humor Because It's Sooooo Zany
(Source) Aaron Rodgers is almost certainly going to win his second most-valuable-player award this season. With a remarkable 38-to-5 touchdown-to-interception ratio, he has been the best quarterback in football. His Green Bay Packers offense is one of the most well-orchestrated in the league. Rodgers is, by all accounts, perfect. And then there are his jokes.
The only time Rodgers isn’t on the same page with his teammates is when he is telling jokes. Rodgers’s attempts at humor are so layered and dry, those who know him say, that the only thing more common than a playbook in the Packers’ locker room is the clueless comment, Is he joking. “His jokes are what we call ‘Algebra 2,’ ” said Daryn Colledge, a Miami Dolphins offensive lineman and former Packers teammate. “I think a lot of people don’t get it.”
Rodgers’s sense of humor, though inscrutable, serves as a calming influence in Green Bay. After a 1-2 start this season, Rodgers famously told fans to “R-E-L-A-X”—a statement later backed up by the Packers’ 12-4 final record. In the locker room, Rodgers uses quips and stunts to tell his teammates the same. The comedic results are mixed. Scenes like the following are common in Green Bay. Last week in a team meeting, Rodgers displayed a photo, randomly, of a figure in American history and asked rookie center Corey Linsley to identify him. There was no apparent purpose to this, but Linsley correctly identified John F. Kennedy.
“What’s his middle name?” Rodgers asked. “I don’t know,” Linsley said. “Frederick?” Half the room giggled. Half was confused. It was, teammates agree, kind of weird. (Linsley clarified that he is now aware of Kennedy’s middle name, Fitzgerald.)
Then there is Rodgers’s habit of quoting “The Princess Bride.” While the 1987 romantic comedy is widely considered a classic, the allusions are lost on Rodgers’s 20-something teammates. (At 31, Rodgers is older than all but three guys on the team.) His favorite line to blurt out, he said, is from the character Vizzini: “Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons.” “They probably don’t get the reference, no,” Rodgers said.
“He does make jokes that fall on deaf ears,” said fullback John Kuhn. “But that’s what happens when you make a lot of jokes.” Teammates say that Rodgers, during pregame walk-throughs, will stare at players with an angry look until the player expresses concern. Then Rodgers will laugh.
Man do I feel dumb. All this time I thought Aaron Rodgers was lame, whether it be with his annoying commercials, or stupid photobombs, or tugging on some guy’s beard. Nope, jokes actually on me, Aaron Rodgers isn’t lame, he’s just zany and no one gets his humor except Aaron Rodgers. John F. Kennedy, the F doesn’t stand for Frederick. Get it? Get it guys????? It’s funny because he’s the quarterback so everyone has to laugh at his jokes and if it was a normal setting where someone had the balls to stand up to him they would tell him to screw off and call him a weirdo. That’s the humor in it. He stares at you so long that it’s creepy but it’s not because it’s Aaron, so funny. LOL indeed.
Live look at me writing this blog. Donnnnnnt Carreeee.
