Aaron Rodgers is a fairly common name — WhitePages.com lists over 100 Aaron Rogers across the U.S. (we’d wager there are more than that), so to all the Aaron Rodgers out there having a fantastic week, keep it up.
But Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is not among them.
On Friday, Rodgers confirmed he’s unvaccinated against Covid-19, has taken ivermectin and accused the “woke mob” of trying to “cancel” him. He’s apparently been bypassing NFL protocols for unvaccinated players, and kicked off his week by missing Sunday’s game because… he has Covid.
Saturday Night Live opened off its most recent episode with Pete Davidson playing Rogers and being interviewed by Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong). It gave us such lines as Rodgers asserting “It’s my body, my Covid,” and Strong starting a question with “And straight talk, Aaron — ’cause I never talk gay,” referencing those gay rumors Rodgers worked extra hard at dispelling in 2015.
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At one point, Davidson jokes about Rodgers’ relationship with insurance company State Farm going south. And flipping the script, life appears to be imitating art.
Rodgers has been a State Farm pitchman since 2011, and while the company is staying as corporate-neutral is it can responding to Rodgers’ statements (they “don’t support some of the statements that he has made”, but “respect his right to have his own personal point of view”), televisions are telling a much different story.
The number of State Farm ads featuring Rodgers took a dramatic nosedive over the weekend, with the player only appearing in 1.5% of the roughly 400 spots the company aired on Sunday. That’s down from 25% the previous two Sundays, reports Apex Marketing, which tracks national ad buying.
“Our monitoring indicates that this wasn’t a planned reduction and more reactionary because there wasn’t any new significant ads put in its place,” said Apex president Eric Smallwood in a statement.
Instead, State Farm has been relying on ads featuring Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Adding to Rodgers’ troubles is news that Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Previa Health has ended their relationship for good. Rodgers had been a spokesperson for the company since 2012.
“Prevea Health remains deeply committed to protecting its patients, staff, providers and communities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic,” the company wrote in a statement. “This includes encouraging and helping all eligible populations to become vaccinated against COVID-19 to prevent the virus from further significantly impacting lives and livelihoods.”
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Donston
Most male “queers” who know Aaron Rodgers know about the past rumors of him and his live-in male assistant, and that is whatever that was. But the dude is perpetually unlikable, arrogant and standoffish. As far as the vaccine, whatever your stance on it is, he did lead the media and his team to believe he was vaccinated. So, blaming the “woke mob” for every bit of criticism that comes your way is a cop-out. He lied and manipulated over something he really didn’t have to and put everyone he came in contact in risk. That’s why folks are coming at him. But instead of taking responsibility he blames the “woke mob”. The dude is a lame.
Cam
his “Girlfriend” is Shalene Woodley who is constant talking about eating clay for health, oil pulling, and how she makes her lipstick out of crushed beats and uses home made deodorant. My guess is, she is so far into the wellness cult that she may be an anti-vaxxer also. What a pair.
chris_clb614
One of Woodley’s costars, Miles Teller, is also an anti-vax.
okiloki
She risked her life and freedom to help protest Standing Rock and used her fame to help promote the protests so she is all right in my book. I really don’t care to judge her on eating clay or whatever since she has done more than most here to help indigenous peoples and the environment.
johncp56
Just watch even more he lied and his people handlers need to be fired, his comments are ass backwards
Halfnhalf
I’m pretty sure he’s not allergic to mRNA, like he said. There are millions of mRNA molecules flowing through his body right now. If he had a legitimate medical reason. he wouldn’t make crap like this up.
Fahd
He’s a liar; he’s lied in the past and now he has lied about being immunized – he mislead people by not complying with procedures for players who were not vaccinated. For a NFL MVP quarterback, pretending you’re vaccinated when you’re not is cowardly and selfish.
When exposed, he decided to give a long podcast interview about how unfairly he anticipated being treated and his dumb ass anti-science views using every Q-anon buzzword available – (the above story really doesn’t capture it.) It seems he may have gotten advice from the people who advised Prince Andrew before his last BBC interview.
Rodgers has no business being in the potential Jeopardy host crowd. He has no business being
a spokesperson among other star quarterbacks for State Farm.
He’s already lost the respect of thinking people everywhere. He’s going to lose out on a lot of endorsement deals. I wonder if his deception and willful ignorance will have been worth it.
He may be a great football quarterback, but overall he’s a pathetic character.
MISTERJETT
just get the damn shot!!!!! don’t we just love Pete?????
Kangol2
How do so many supposedly intelligent people get caught up in that Q-razy Q-anon sh!t? It’s so nutty it should be evident it’s pure psycho fantasy and fiction and yet, as Fahd points out, Aaron Rogers was spewing the Q buzzwords to defend his lies! As Cam notes, his girlfriend is a loon, so there’s that, but it’s a leap from being a health fanatic to Q-raziness. Or maybe it isn’t. Maybe the DL posture is rotting his brain. Whatever the case, the problem isn’t “woke” people, it’s you, Aaron Rogers. WTF happened to you?
Richpontone
Green Bay needs to use that Horse Dewormer that Lying Rodgers advocates to get rid of this Worm.
Archie
You would think that gays would be a bit sympathetic to lies. Didn’t each of us do a lot of lying before we came out?
Donston
Many “queers” have been out since at least their teens. While there are legit sociological and religious pressures to staying closeted. And despite what you see in entertainment, most queer males who get female partners are not closeted to them. You also never know anyone’s struggles, dimensions and journey.
Aaron is almost 40 years old. He’s spewing out Q-non shit. And he potentially endangered his colleagues and everyone he came in contact with because he didn’t want to admit to not getting the shot and claimed he was allergic. If he kept it real about simply not wanting the shot instead of all this bull-shitting, he wouldn’t be getting anywhere near this level of backlash.
In some ways I sympathize with Aaron. He doesn’t speak to his family for whatever reasons. He doesn’t seem to be friends with anyone in the league. He has always come off a bit sad and isolated. He’s potentially dealt with some traumas, mental health struggles, dimensions, queer insecurities, hetero pressures, fluidity, confusions or frustrations regarding his sexuality and his placement in the gender, sexual, affection, romantic, emotion, commitment spectrum. But lying and endangering people is still lying and endangering. High-key using Q-non phrasing is still doing such. Trying to claim that all the criticism you receive is just “woke mob” and not owning up to your shit is still just that. As Fahd pointed out, his character is weak.
rcster
There’s a difference between lying/hiding that you’re gay and a lie that could put your teammates and others at risk. He could have just been honest about not being vaccinated, it’s the NFL he’s in good company. And I might be able to forgive the lie if he still followed the protocols for players unvaccinated but NO he’s a selfish dude who put others at risk. To me the problem is that he didn’t have his teammates back, he just wanted to do the easiest thing for himself.
Cam
The right wing troll account tries to compare lying about an action taken to having to hide who you are because of fear your family will kick you out or your friends at school will attack you.
Nice try, tell Putin to send smarter trolls.
bsg1967
Seek therapy
chris_clb614
To paraphrase a character from The Princess Bride in regards to Rodgers and his use of the word “woke”: it doesn’t mean what he thinks it means. He also employed the “woke mob” after the reaction over his touchdown celebration, telling fans of the Chicago Bears that he owns their team. Merely for having great success against them, 22 wins to 5 losses.
Jim
I sent State Farm a message asking if Aaron lied about being vaccinated, does he lie in their commercials.
cuteguy
His “girlfriend” went on Instagram stories to put down a guy that was photographed that was believed to be that schmuck Aaron. Ok it wasn’t Aaron, but she didn’t have to put down this poor innocent guy. True definition of a bully.
Donston
Can y’all stop putting “girlfriend” in quotes please? We know that Aaron has probably had at least one long-term same-sex relationship. While this could be a bearding situation. Or it may not be as serious of a relationship as they want the public to believe (this is like the fourth time Aaron has supposedly been engaged). But none of us really know the nature or nuances of their dynamic. Nor do any of us really know Aaron’s sexuality, his dimensions, his struggles, his journey, or where he currently is in the gender, sexual, romantic, emotional investment, relationship investment, commitment spectrum. So, while he’s messy and manipulative in many ways, let’s not with the “girlfriend”.
Terrycloth
I don’t follow any sports at all…never heard of this guy until he became a headline.he got advice from Joe Rogan another tool
ScottOnEarth
I’ve never heard of this person before this issue….but, i’m wondering if he always looks filthy and unbathed?
arie570
If you go into Kohl’s you will see him in their ads and posters. He is actually quite sexy before he grew his hair out. He lost me when he said he was listening to that Joe Rogan guy…..and using heartworm pills.