Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers’s season ended after taking just four snaps in Week 1 against the Bills. Yet, somehow, it feels like he never went away.
Since his Achilles injury, the four-time MVP has been a constant presence on the sidelines and he continues to make paid weekly appearances on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show,” where he carries on about his vaccine status.
On Tuesday, Rodgers floated a theory for why there’s so much negativity directed toward him on McAfee’s show. According to Rodgers, it’s all because of a medical decision he made a few years ago: to pass on the COVID-19 vaccine.
This has left Jerry Recco of WFAN’s “Boomer and Gio” show fed up.
“Who cares? You’re Aaron Rodgers. Who gives a rat’s ass what anybody thinks about what’s happening when you can and will still be the best thing to happen to this organization in a long time when you’re on the field next year?” Recco said, via Audacy. “I am so sick and tired of rich people that can do things that others can’t, and then sit in their ivory tower and cast comments and opinions on people. When he talks about all the people that got the [COVID-19 vaccine] and the puppet masters that basically bowed down to ‘the man.’
“Hey eff face, most of society doesn’t make $100 million and can just live the rest of their live. Most of society actually had to go to work, and with mandates, you had to make a decision,” Recco continued. “Call it what you want, but you sound like a snot-nosed little rich guy.”
Rodgers is one of the loudest opponents of the COVID-19 vaccine. In October, he even challenged Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who appears on TV ads for Pfizer’s vaccine, to a debate unprompted on McAfee’s show.
Rodgers said it should be a two-on-two debate, with him taking anti-vaxxer and 2024 independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and Kelce joining with former White House chief medical advisor “(Dr. Anthony) Fauci or some other pharmacrat.”
Of course, that challenge went nowhere.