Teen Bears Fan to Brain Tumor: I'll Call You Aaron Rodgers

A 14-year-old Chicago Bears fan suffering from a brain tumor has given a name to his pain.

That name? Aaron Rodgers.

The idea for Miguel Reyes, of Elkhart, Ind., to nickname the tumor after the Green Bay Packers quarterback came from an unlikely source, according to a report in The Elkhart Truth. The teen was inspired to have his personal health nemesis be identified with the Chicago Bears’s continuing on-field nemesis thanks to his junior high school teacher, Peg Kelly, the report stated.

“I said, ‘You need to name that tumor, so we can kill it’,” Kelly told The Truth.

The twist: Kelly is as big a Packers Backer as Miguel is a Bears fan (the teen also has a dog named after his favorite former Bears player Devin Hester).

As you can imagine, Kelly handled that revelation with the grace and aplomb that Green Bay fans are known for: She called her pupil a stinker. Considering the friendship between student and teacher started with the teen proclaiming, “The Packers suck,” Kelly’s response is actually pretty darn sweet.

While naming specific health maladies after hated sports figures probably isn’t a proven and effective treatment endorsed by the AMA, the practice doesn’t include severe side effects, and it might be a little therapeutic.

Here are some suggestions for Bears fans, matching names with possible ailments:

Symptoms: Excessive, unflattering and outright embarrassing hair growth

Name: A.J. Hawk (thankfully, there is a cure)

Symptoms: Violent, crippling pain that feels like it was caused by your body giving itself constant cheap shots no matter how many times it was fined.

Name: Ndamukong Suh

Symptoms: Erratic, inconsistent behavior that can lead to apathy, a lack of ambition and an intense unlikability even among devoted supporters.

Name: Jay Cutler

»H/T to the Chicago Sun-Times

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PHOTO: Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers | CREDIT: Mike Morbeck, via Wikimedia Commons