Aaron Rodgers used a recent interview to open up about repairing his family relationships, but one part of his comments immediately stood out: he talked about one brother, not both.
Speaking Saturday on NFL Network with Kyle Brandt, Rodgers said the reconciliation took time and that marriage helped change his perspective. “There’s been a lot of conversation about it outside of my own conversation for so many years,” Rodgers said. He added, “You know, a big part of it was getting married and having those conversations with my wife that allowed me to kind of open up to the possibility of coming together.”
Rodgers said the process stretched over several years. He also described a recent trip to Nashville, Tennessee, where he spent time with his parents, his brother, his brother’s wife, and their two children.
“And it’s been really beautiful to reconnect with them. All of them,” Rodgers said.
“All of them. And I got to spend a week, a long weekend recently.
Those pictures are from in Nashville. My parents, my brother, and his sweet wife, and their incredible two kids.
I got to be an uncle. It’s just really - it’s really special.”
That wording is what drew attention. Rodgers has two brothers, Luke Rodgers and Jordan Rodgers, but his comments pointed to only one sibling. The brother he described as having a wife and two children appears to be Luke Rodgers, since Jordan Rodgers and his wife, JoJo Fletcher, have one child.
The omission didn’t go unnoticed, especially given the long-running strain between Aaron and Jordan Rodgers. Their family issues became public years ago when Jordan appeared on ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” where the rift was discussed on national television. Aaron later took issue with Jordan for speaking publicly about family matters, and the awkward empty chair that appeared on the show became one of the most talked-about images from that period.
Jordan has also spoken publicly about the relationship over the years, keeping the family tension in the spotlight.
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