When they tossed the coin at Super Bowl I, there were a grand total of five people on the field: Two Packers captains, two Chiefs captains, and the referee.
Aaron Rodgers knows first-hand that a lot has changed since then.
As one of the Packers’ captains at this year’s Super Bowl, Rodgers was on the field for the mob scene that was the pregame coin toss, and in an interview with 540 ESPN Milwaukee, he told an interesting story about how bizarre the situation was.
“I’m one of the captains. There’s five of us,” Rodgers said, via SportsRadioInterviews.com. “The Steelers’ guys are standing over there and we’re standing looking at each other for a good three minutes. Well over to the left about 10 cameramen have been trying to get in place for the best shot and two of them are fighting. They’re yelling at each other in different languages, flipping each other off and one guy is flipping him off and the other guy below him is just taking all of these pictures of him. The guy above is flipping off the little guy down below, who is kind of squeezed in to get the lowest spot. He thought it was the best picture, so the low guy is down. They started screaming at each other. He’s yelling at him. The up guy is flipping him off and the down guy just starts taking all of these pictures at him. The guy who stands up…he just started taking pictures. They’re both screaming at other and taking pictures of each other for a good minute and a half and I’m tapping A.J. [Hawk] like, ‘Look at that over there! Look at those guys!’ It was unbelievable.”
So that’s what Rodgers was doing in the moments before the biggest game of his life: Laughing at photographers getting into a fight. And Rodgers also said he had a good laugh at the expense of Christina Aguilera, who screwed up the national anthem.
But not everything went wrong in the Super Bowl pregame.
“The chick from ‘Glee’ killed the first song,” Rodgers said. “She should have sang the anthem too.”
