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Rodgers denies calling Favre 'grandpa' during 1st meeting

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There's at least one good reason that Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers had a cold and distant professional relationship.

In a newly released book by Jeff Pearlman, titled "Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre," Rodgers allegedly called Favre "grandpa" during their first meeting.

Here's the excerpt in question, as transcribed by Bleacher Report:

Rodgers and Favre finally met on June 2, [2005], when the Packers came to town for a seven-practice organized team activity camp. Now merely a head coach (and a disgruntled one at that), [Mike] Sherman allowed Favre to skip the workouts, but that didn't mean he would not attend. In fact, that morning Favre was alone, sitting in the team cafeteria and reading a newspaper, when Rodgers saw him in person for the first time. The new quarterback approached the old quarterback and uttered what will forever go down as the worst introductory line in the history of professional sports.

"Good morning, grandpa!"

Silence.

Rodgers denied the story on Wednesday, however.

"The story that was out there that I saw is completely 100 percent false, and I would dare anybody to test my memory on that. You guys know how my memory works. The end," Rodgers said via ESPN's Rob Demovsky.

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