It has been an NFL season short on drama and long on mediocrity, and as the playoffs approach, there’s little in the way of compelling storylines for the league. NFL fans have grown weary of the Swift/Kelce storyline as the Chiefs and the aforementioned player are stumbling toward the postseason. That has left little to talk about in terms of storylines off of the field.
However, thankfully, we still have Aaron Rodgers. Despite only playing four snaps all season before rupturing his achilles tendon, his new team, the New York Jets, voted Rodgers their most inspirational player this week. Rodgers has been a mentor in the locker room and a coach on the sidelines as he works his way back from injury with an eye on playing in 2024 and perhaps beyond.
Aaron Rodgers is also funny, controversial, and outspoken on topics most athletes and celebrities won’t touch. Whether it is Covid and vaccine mandates, or psychedelic substances, or the upcoming dump of the Epstein list, Rodgers is likely to have an entertaining take. However, not everyone finds the future Hall of Fame quarterback entertaining.
On the topic of the Epstein list, one particular Fox Sports 1 personality found no humor at all regarding Rodger’s latest remarks. Recently, the quarterback joked about the possibility of late-night alleged funnyman Jimmy Kimmel being on one of the notorious Epstein lists. Kimmel shot back on social media, but apparently, Nick Wright on the lowly rated Fox Sports 1 cable network took grave offense to the comments.
In an unhinged rant on his show, his dozens of listeners heard Wright go ballistic on Rodgers. He said: “The story is Aaron Rodgers, who undeniably is one of the most famous athletes in America today, arguably the single-most powerful player in the single-most powerful league we have, has crossed the rubicon from wacky conspiracy theory guy to malignant force in the culture and nobody has seemed to have batted an eye.”
What apparently upset Wright is Rodger’s joke on the highly-rated Pat McAfee Show on January 2. Rodgers flippantly said of the client list: “There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, really hoping that doesn’t come out.” Kimmel fired back, threatening legal action and claiming to have never met Epstein. It was a curious reaction from someone who has taken every opportunity to castigate and make fun of Aaron Rodgers over his vax stance and Covid opinions.
Wright displayed a similarly thin skin on behalf of Kimmel and continued his rant: “Rodgers has become the voice in the sports world of some of the most deranged, unhinged people in our populous. He is so deep in the toxic internet brain vortex that it got lumped in with the mass delusion psychosis he talks about and the Super Bowl logo memes and the ‘debate me, bro’ to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci, and the Epstein list, it is all just one stew of a brain that’s been melting. Now he’s throwing out terms that have not only nothing to do with the pharmaceutical industry but also, if he knew what they meant, would disavow.”
The animous from Wright is obvious, and he clearly doesn’t recognize that Rodgers is simply trolling and making fun of certain situations. Nick Wright is simply a talking head for the left, and he proves that with his insistence on labeling people who choose to believe anything outside of the approved narratives as “deranged, unhinged people.”
Wright put himself on full display, saying: “One of our most prominent voices in sports has become the face, the voice, and most importantly, the megaphone for any bats–t crazy, half-baked theory he stumbles across on the internet.” Never mind that most of the alleged theories have proven to be fact. Nick Wright may be on a failing cable sports network that no one watches, but his recent rant may one day land him a job on CNN, and the sports world will be better for it.
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