When it comes to his center's butt, Aaron Rodgers doesn't like 'em when they rest too low and he doesn't like 'em too high. He also doesn't like butt sweat.
In a revealing interview with TSN radio this week, the Green Bay Packers quarterback talked about his butt preferences when taking snaps. He looks for two things: "low sweat ratio and solid butt height."
Rodgers explains:
"There’s two main components that a center needs to have, and it’s not quickness or agility or snapping or anything. It’s two things: One, he has to have a good height, and I’m talking about where his butt rests. It can’t be too low because I don’t wanna get deep in that stance and it can’t be too high so I feel like I’m standing up. It’s gotta be just right. He’s got that.
"And the second is most important, and that’s sweating. How much do they sweat? The worst thing that you can have is third, fourth quarter on a October day where it’s 65, 70 degrees and he’s sweating through his pants. Because that is not a situation you wanna be in. You gotta change pants at halftime."
I'll let you ponder that for a moment. And if you care to, read on as Aaron Rodgers goes into deeper detail about the problems posed by excessive butt sweat:
"Our backup center - great guy - Evan Dietrich-Smith, he has major sweat issues. And when you get that ball snapped up and there’s a lot of sweat that just splashes all over you and on your hands and the ball - it’s not a good situation. So he actually has changed at halftime before."
The Packers signed a new center this offseason, Jeff Saturday, the old Indianapolis Colt who made five pro bowls snapping to Peyton Manning. And Aaron Rodgers' early reviews of his butt are pretty good:
"Jeff’s doing really well in both categories… Low sweat ratio and solid butt height."
So all you mothers out there, if you've got a baby boy with solid butt height and a low sweat ratio, you should think about making a center out of him (just forget about the part where he gets concussed a couple thousand times during his football career).
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