Aaron Rodgers appeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” to discuss the continued battle that has been waging between him and the media for the better part of three years after the star decided to avoid taking the COVID vaccine. Rodgers said that many in the left-leaning sports media are still holding grudging and degrading him for that decision, one which he still stands by to this day.
With swathes of media members upset at Rodgers, who suffered a season-ending Achilles injury on week one of this season, he claimed that people need to do more research into those journalists who are degrading his decision to remain on the active roster. Rodgers chose not to go onto the injured reserve list, believing that he could return in record time from the lower body injury.
Speaking about those journalists on “The Pat McAfee Show”, Rodgers said, “The same people who are criticizing me or coming up with these conspiracies about my injury, before they talk, let’s go back to 2021 and let’s make people say their vax status to start.”
Rodgers didn’t slow down, saying that many in the media are upset about his successful campaign during the COVID pandemic, in which he won the MVP award despite being unvaccinated. He said, “They’re still mad I’m covid MVP. Not just the two MVP’s that I won but also: I didn’t bow down to the Medical Industrial Complex and the Mass Formation Psychosis and I decided to make a decision that was in the best interest of my health. They’re still trying to get their jabs in. Have another jab while you’re at it.”
He continued, “Lets have them say I’m so and so double vaxxed with Pfizer. Triple boosted. They have their puppet masters who are puppeteering them to say this certain thing about this guy. They’re still upset about the fact that I believe in medical freedom.”
Championing this “Medical Freedom” has been a jumping-off point for Rodgers’ fanbase to grow even larger beyond the Green Bay Packers for whom he was playing at the time. An entire crowd of Americans, upset with the constant messaging from what Rodgers refers to as the “Medical Industrial Complex,” have backed the star quarterback after he took this stance.
Rodgers took some more heat this season when he announced that he might not be done playing this year. With the normal medical treatment, a torn Achilles tendon would make a quarterback miss the entire season, but Rodgers had a new experimental treatment that he hoped would allow him to suit up for the Jets at the end of the year.
With that plan failing, Rodgers says that he can feel that some in the media are celebrating his failure. He said, “They’re still trying to get their jabs in. They’re still trying to take a victory lap you know that somehow I couldn’t beat science this time. Take it easy on the victory laps and have another jab while you’re at it.”
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