Jordan Love goes viral, still getting used to spotlight

 

WISCONSIN (CBS 58) -- By normal standards, it has been a quiet offseason for Packers fans. But this week, new QB1 Jordan Love found himself the subject of a couple of viral posts online.

Over the weekend, Love was recorded wishing a happy Fathers' Day to Chicago Bears fans.

Other Bears fans decided that what Love said means that the Bears are "his daddy."

Love later had to set the record straight with a tweet of his own, explaining that he was just being nice to a fan and that he didn't expect the video to get blown out of proportion.

The dust had yet to settle on "Daddy gate," a tweet from NFL reporter Adam Schefter set keyboard fingers on fire yet again. Schefter quoted Packers CB Jaire Alexander calling Jordan Love the best QB in the league.

Jordan Love is now arguably the most scrutinized person in the state of Wisconsin and seems to know it.

"Life changes a little bit when you go from being a backup to a starter," Love told the media after practice last week. "There's the external things that I can't control that might be a little different now."

But Love does have something going for him.

Unlike the Packers' last quarterback Aaron Rodgers, fans don't know who Love dates, what insurance company he sponsors, whether he's vaccinated, and they've never seen his bare feet.

Jordan Love is a blank slate, a breath of fresh air. And at least right now, the team has his back. Preston Smith, speaking on NFL Network this week, thinks Love has the tools to be great.

"Is Jordan going to fall into that legendary status and fall into the line of the legends before him?" Smith wondered, before answering his own question.

"I feel like he'll be great."

As for Aaron Rodgers, he is back in the news, scheduled to speak at a psychedelics conference in Denver this week about how he thinks using ayahuasca increases performance.