It’s been a year since Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers told the world he had been inoculated – but not vaccinated – against COVID. Media ganged on Rodgers in November when he was diagnosed with coronavirus and cancelled his contract. Based on Rodgers’ remarks today he’s still smarting from that attack and is in no joking mood about the firestorm that surrounded him last year.
Rodgers appeared today on the Barstool Sports podcast Pardon My Take, hosted by Dan “Big Cat” Katz and Eric Sollenberger. The two made fun of the extremes that the media took to cancel Rodgers’ appearance.:
Do you believe you have killed more than one person? What’s your count?
Are there many grandmothers in your family? Let’s just do grandmothers.
Those questions struck a very raw nerve, and Rodgers shot back, “I mean, I know you guys are fucking around but I don’t find that part funny. I really don’t.”
Upon hearing Rodgers’ reaction, Katz responded, “Oh shit. Actually, it is something I love about this whole immunization stuff. Katz replied by tweeting that Rodgers should be in Jail.
“I would have people who’d get the joke and then there would be like a ton of people who’d be like, ‘Oh, you like — you think COVID is so real, he should be in jail.’ And it was just, my mentions would just be a mess!”
Rodgers recalled the vitriol of last year when he was practically branded a public enemy for exposing people to COVID, quipping, “And probably a lot of people said, ‘Fuck, yeah, put him in jail — Get that liar in jail.’”
Just how ridiculous were the media’s vaccination lemmings last year when they attacked Rodgers for days on end?
As a matter of fact, a Washington Post columnist urged people to make life a “living hell” for those who declined vaccinations. Rodgers was utterly rebuffed by the sports media. Non-stop attacks followed.
Among the sports media who shamed Rodgers were NBC’s Mike Florio, Sports Illustrated’s Conor Orr, Yahoo Sports’s Shalise Manza Young and a whole lot more. This episode taught us a lot about groupthink. The media often attacked athletes for declining to get vaccinated. They were accused of letting their teammates down by not helping their teams win, even though they had been sidelined from COVID. All good media listened to it religiously.
Rodgers stated that he did a thorough review of the research to dismiss cancelation as an utter political fraud. During last season’s shaming firestorm, Rodgers said, “I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now, so before my final nail gets put in my cancel-culture casket, I think I’d like to set the record straight on so many of the blatant lies out there.”
Rodgers said he was allergic to the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, and he did not trust the Johnson & Johnson vaccine either.
Rodgers didn’t care which side was in the vaccine debate. He said, “I made a choice that was in my best interest,” and, “The right is gonna champion me, and the left is gonna cancel me.” He said he didn’t care about either side and politics are “a total sham.”
Rodgers had the last laugh in the face of the media cancellation mob. He contracted the coronavirus in November, missed a game, but eventually won the NFL’s 2021 Most Valuable Player award. His Packers team won the division, and he made the playoffs. This proved that he wasn’t an unvaccinated Super-Spreader.
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