Rodgers has cheat sheet for ‘Jeopardy!’ host stint

We just couldn’t let this stuff go …

Aaron Rodgers famously told Green Bay Packers fans to “R-E-L-A-X” when the team got off to a slow start in 2014. Faced with something of the opposite problem as guest host of “Jeopardy!” Rogers wound up taking his own advice, writes Des Bieler of The Washington Post.

“The biggest thing that I wanted to think about was slowing down,” he said in an interview with “Jeopardy!” producers posted online Saturday. “I think the nerves come up, especially during the first few games, when I really felt I had some problems with some other clues, reading them.

“I ended up writing on my podium just some kind of code words: ‘Slow down.’ ‘Relax.’ ‘Speak clearly.’ ”

Other words of wisdom Rodgers claimed he wrote to himself included, “Don’t pick your nose,” as well as a similar admonition to avoid a certain area on his lower backside. “Just a couple of important things,” he said with a smile.

Two weeks of episodes featuring the 37year-old quarterback, who taped them in mid-February, started to air Monday. “Other than the Super Bowl, this is the honor of a lifetime,” Rodgers said in a promotional clip for the show.

In the wake of longtime host Alex Trebek’s

November death, “Jeopardy!” has been using a series of guest hosts, beginning with recordsetting former champion Ken Jennings.

Rodgers has qualifications to be a guest host that go well beyond his reputation as one of the NFL’s smartest players. He proved his mettle on the show by winning a 2015 installment of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” and has spoken in the past of his devotion to watching the show. In January, when he revealed he would be a guest host, he declared that “Jeopardy!” had been “a staple at my house here in Green Bay for the last 16 years.”

Trivia question

Whom did Rodgers defeat when he won “Celebrity Jeopardy!”?