There is a three-part documentary recently posted at Netflix that carries the title “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma.” Clearly, Rodgers had considerable influence on the content, or this three-hour look at his career and life would have contained more than a couple of sentences on his variety of high-profile relationships.
Viewers might have seen Blu of Earth, a friend made as Rodgers was discovering the ayahuasca world of hallucinogens. Miss Blu does join Olivia Munn, Danica Patrick and Shailene Woodley in not getting a formal mention from the Enigmatic One.
Brett Favre, Rodgers’ predecessor as a Green Bay quarterbacking legend, is also currently featured in the second season of “Rich & Shameless” on TNT (also Max). He gets 42 minutes on an episode titled “Brett Favre: Out of Bounds.”
I can offer a 100% guarantee that Favre had no control over this content. This deals with the allegations that welfare funds in his home state of Mississippi have found their way to unrelated projects favored by Favre rather than to poor folks.
Sadly for Brett, the producers also took a few minutes to relive the graphic text that Favre was alleged to have sent to a young woman he had never met. She was doing some media work at his one and only New York Jets training camp in 2008.
A year later, he was landing at Holman Field in downtown St. Paul and being chased by a news helicopter as the vehicle in which he was now traveling headed toward Winter Park. He would be the Vikings’ new, soon-to-be-39 quarterback — with past grudges replaced instantly by adulation.
So you can remember Favre’s almost-glorious first season here, and try to ignore the second, but as the new-age Packers and the newer-age Vikings prepare for Sunday’s epic contest in Zygi’s Universe of Enormous Profit, it is difficult to not be amazed by this:
The incredible quarterbacking legacy that has fallen upon the mind, the right arm and the legs of 26-year-old second-year starter Jordan Love in Green Bay. He only had to wait until Year 3 for his chance, as Rodgers went to the Jets for an unhappy swan song.