Aaron Rodgers Just Needs A Hug

It's what every kid dreads at back-to-school time: bullies. And Aaron Rodgers is more sensitive than most. Spent the off-season frolicking in the backyard inflatable pool with his sister and his dog Grover, and making sugar cookies with mom. And now that he's the starting quarterback for the Packers — which should be the best fun ever — those mean kids are ruining everything. "I don't want to be a Packer, mom!" (Runs off crying. Slams bedroom door).

"I understand it to some point if I put myself into a Favre fanatic’s shoes,” Rodgers said today, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “The things I can’t understand, the things I really take personally, is when I’m driving up to the (parking lot) gate and punching in my punch code and somebody says ‘F.U.’ to me. That kind of bothers me. Or when a little kid is yelling swear words at me. That kind of gets to me. The boos, they expect a high level of play and they miss Brett Favre. I understand that. But the ‘F.U.’ and the little kids saying swear words to me, I don’t understand that.”

But at least Rodgers is smart enough not to bottle it all up inside, so that it eventually affects his play.

What can you do?” Rodgers said. “Do people really feel better about themselves after they say stuff like that to me? It’s disappointing. I’m not too dumb, I’m not going to say anything back to them. It’s not my style, it’s against my religion.”

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