When a Green Bay couple found out that their newborn baby was born with a broken collarbone, the same injury plaguing their favorite team’s MVP quarterback, Kyle Dryer and Kristal Tyczkowski who both bleed green and gold, decided it was only logical that they named their brand new son Aaron Rodger Dryer.
The Green Bay Gazette tells the entire story.
And while the youngster still has to do some healing — and growing — before he is ready for some football, his parents already suspect the little guy will someday follow his namesake quarterback Aaron Rodgers onto the gridiron.
“He’ll be taking snaps,” his father, Kyle Dryer, said Tuesday as the family returned from the hospital and settled into their home on Green Bay’s west side.
Baby Aaron was born at 12:20 p.m. Sunday at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay. He was a couple of weeks early, and his parents had not really settled on a name yet.
But when the nurses discovered the broken left collarbone — on the same side as the quarterback’s injury — the parents did not need long to choose a name. Kyle was the first to suggest it.
“I said, ‘That’s not a bad name,’” recalled the baby’s mother, Kristal Tyczkowski. “That’s when we knew.”
They dropped the “s” from Rodgers because they thought Rodger sounded better as a middle name.
You have to love fans who are so serious about their team that they would name their child after the quarterback. Little Aaron certainly has a huge name to live up to but his parents are convinced he will follow his namesake quarterback Aaron Rodgers onto the gridiron.