GREEN BAY u2012 The NFL has 22 female full-time athletic trainers, 21 of which were hired before Erin Roberge, but none of them are employed by the Green Bay Packers, which carries its own cachet.
Roberge said it's cool to be the team's first female full-time athletic trainer, but she understands the context of the honor.
"It just feels like doing my job every day, but it is a cool thing to be a part of and to be the first," she said. "Luckily, I wasn’t the first female intern (the Packers) had.