After the Añejo tequila from the night before had worn off, Aaron Rodgers asked Packers assistant director of communications Tom Fanning for Jordan Love’s cell phone number.
Rodgers was driving home in Southern California from a workout the morning after the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft. Before he entered an area without service, he stopped on the side of the road to call his newest teammate.
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Brett Favre infamously said his contract didn’t mandate mentoring Rodgers, the 2005 first-round pick who sat behind Favre for three years. For all Love knew, he’d get the same cold shoulder.
Love didn’t want to initiate the conversation with Rodgers that soon after the
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