Today’s column from CBS Chicago …
(CBS) These days, he torments the orange and blue faithful at Soldier Field.
But on Tuesday, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers took a moment to instead torment the fans down in Champaign when he told “The Dan Patrick Show” that he actually wanted to play college ball for the University of Illinois coming out of his California high school in 2002. But then-Illini coach Ron Turner didn’t want him.
“I can remember the first time I started a game in college and heard the anthem and … talk about an absolute thrill,” Rodgers recalled. “We were in Champaign, I was playing the University of Illinois, who I wanted to go to out of high school. I was playing for Cal, and I just always think about that moment and how far I’ve come from there.”
After Patrick pointed out to Rodgers how his admission has to be a painful blow for Illini fans, Rodgers said, “I went out to their team camp, and they didn’t offer me. They didn’t offer me a scholarship.”
Oops.
Turner, of course, wasn’t the only college coach to miss on Rodgers, who ended up going the junior college route before eventually signing with Cal. At the same time, Rodgers also didn’t attend every school’s team camp or place any other program atop his college wish list like he apparently did with Illinois.
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