GREEN BAY — Aaron Rodgers' first big test of his healing left collarbone came in his driveway a few days before Sunday's victory over the Chicago Bears.

The Green Bay Packers quarterback wiped out while clearing the snow from his suburban Green Bay home when he went down — hard.

"I felt really good. Ever since I tried to shovel my driveway and actually slipped on some ice, I had a pretty good feeling I was going to be able to fall and not have some major issues," Rodgers said on his weekly radio show on 540 ESPN and ESPNWisconsin.com on Tuesday. "Thankfully no one in my neighborhood was out there watching or videoing me because that would have been great YouTube material."

Rodgers said he crashed onto his lower back and not his collarbone. He did not seriously hurt himself.

"I was wearing my Chuck Norris shirt, though, so I felt like that kind of gave me some sort of protection," Rodgers joked. "Thank you Chuck, for that."

As for Sunday's 33-28 victory over the Bears, Rodgers said the late hit he absorbed from Bears defensive end Shea McClellin — the same guy who tackled him into the Lambeau Field turf on Nov. 4 to cause his injury — hit him after he'd been sacked by Lance Briggs in the second quarter. McClellin was penalized 15 yards for roughing the quarterback.

Rodgers said he feels good physically leading into next Sunday's NFC Wild Card Playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers at Lambeau Field.

"I wanted to take that first hit. That first hit was actually a very painful one — that late one — but not painful in my collarbone area," Rodgers said. "As I sit here on Tuesday the most painful areas on my body are my calves."

Rodgers said he started cramping in his calves on the game-winning touchdown drive and had trouble running on the third-and-4 scramble that kept the drive alive. But his decision to scramble on that play — and elude Briggs, a seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker for a 5-yard gain — was in stark contrast to earlier in the game, when it appeared Rodgers had a chance to scramble but instead slid prematurely, as if he were being extra cautious about contact.

"Yeah, I was a conscious about it early. I didn't want to take any unnecessary shots, so I made sure I got down on that first slide pretty early," Rodgers said. "The late third-and-4 (scramble) was purely reactionary. I got out of the picket, and I think I might have glances to the first0down marker and when I came back, Lance was just kind of right there and it was a reactionary thing knowing that I had to get a couple of extra yards. It wasn't that I showed any extra toughness there or felt more comfortable. I was making a football play there."

Jason Wilde  wrote: