GREEN BAY, Wis. -- It started as a favor. Aaron Rodgers needed a ride to the airport to catch the Green Bay Packers’ charter flight to Houston for a game in 2012. Jordy Nelson happily obliged.
A week later, Rodgers stopped Nelson again.
“‘Are you picking me up?’” Nelson recalls Rodgers asking. “I was like, ‘If you want,’ [Rodgers] replied ‘Did you not have a good game last week?’”
Nelson did indeed. He caught nine passes for 121 yards and a career-high three touchdowns in a win over the Texans.