Aaron Rodgers crushes Packer fan who ripped hard counts

Aaron Rodgers had to shut down a Packer fan who bizarrely took him to task for using the hard-count.

The general rule on things like hard-counts is, you love them when it’s your team pulling them off but hate them when it’s the other team.

Packer fan Richard Klatt apparently disagrees with this rule. Mr. Klatt hates hard counts, even when it’s his quarterback Aaron Rodgers pulling them off.

According to Klatt, using a hard-count to trick an undisciplined team into giving you five free yards is a sign of poor sportsmanship and is not a skill that should be taught to impressionable youths.

Klatt felt so strongly about his position he even fired off a letter to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. People still send letters to newspapers?

Via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (h/t Total Packers):

Aaron Rodgers quickly found out about Klatt’s letter and didn’t waste any time responding via a modern up-to-date form of communication, namely Twitter.

As a Viking fan I have to say I hate it when Rodgers successfully employs his “stutter count” to get certain players to jump offsides (Everson Griffen leaps to mind), but at the same time, I would never question the legitimacy of the tactic.

You know what I would say if Teddy Bridgewater became as good at the hard-count as Aaron Rodgers? I would say good for Teddy. In fact I hope Teddy is working on developing a hard-count.

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Richard Klatt apparently thinks he’s taking a big principled stand against something he finds detrimental to the game but let me ask this: What if the Packers were in the Super Bowl and Rodgers used a hard-count to get a key first down that helped Green Bay win the game? What would Klatt say then? Would he advise the Packers to take the high road and turn down the trophy?

I’ve heard some weird takes from Packer fans in my day but this one is up there among the weirdest.