Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers made headlines Wednesday as he signed the record-breaking extension which has made him the highest-paid player in the league. It was obviously huge news which was covered all across the country — even in enemy territory like Chicago.
However, the Chicago Tribune decided to troll one of their fierce rivals by putting this cheeky headline on their tweet of the Rodgers extension story: Wisconsin man gets a pay raise.
But despite the paper’s track record of doing this sort of thing to him, Rodgers doesn’t seem to mind it too much. He also couldn’t help but hurl a zinger of his own about Green Bay’s two-decade domination of the Bears.
“They've done multiple headlines not mentioning by name and I find it all pretty comical,” Rodgers responded, according to Josh Tolentino of The Athletic.” It is what it is. We've beat them a bunch in mine and Favre's eras over the past 20 years-or-so of Packer football.”
It’s obviously great to hear that Rodgers doesn’t take those things too seriously. While the Bears and Packers have been one of the fiercest rivals in the NFL, those trolling headlines are mostly meant to be some light-hearted ribbing between the two sides.
And as Rodgers was all too eager to point out, the Chicago papers can troll and make fun of him all they like, but as long as he and the Packers continue to beat the Bears on the field, he’s still going to have the last laugh.
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