He's a Super Bowl champion, two-time league MVP and regarded as one of the top two quarterbacks in the NFL -- not many things make Aaron Rodgers' palms sweaty. Playing golf with President Barack Obama just so happens to be one of those things.
Speaking on former teammate A.J. Hawk's podcast, "The Hawkcast," Rodgers described himself as being "super nervous" when playing golf with the president.
Retired astronaut Mark Kelly coordinated the tee time in February and invited Rodgers along with ESPN's Tony Kornheiser to join him and the president.
"I said, 'I'm all in. Just let me know,'" Rodgers said. "In February, they sent five or six dates and they said, 'Can you make any of these dates work?' And I said, 'Yeah. Any of them. Just pick one. I'll be there.'"
Known for being cool and calm under pressure on the gridiron, Rodgers admits that golf gets under his skin.
"That gets me 10 times more nervous than the first snap in a game or a snap in the fourth quarter when you've got to make a play," the Green Bay Packers quarterback admitted. "I'm worried about hitting people, I'm worried about whiffing, I'm worried about looking terrible out there.
"I want to play well out there and obviously you walk on the first tee with the leader of the free world -- who's competitive -- [and] I didn't want to go out there and embarrass myself. Luckily I put together a decent round and made some putts. But I was very nervous at the first tee."
Opponents now have a blueprint to get to Rodgers. Just ask President Obama to show up at the stadium golf-ready. The near-impossible obstacle is getting in contact with the most powerful man in the world, but his schedule will be freeing up a bit in 2017.
