Last week, Aaron Rodgers put his broken foot into it when he made a stupid crack about late night host Jimmy Kimmel being on the Jeffrey Epstein documents. Understandably, Kimmel was pissed off and called Rodgers out on it.
On Tuesday, during his regular appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers made the decision not to do the right thing and apologize. Instead, Rodgers decided to double down, then triple down and then quadruple down on his stupidity. He blasted Kimmel for mocking anti-vaxxers as himself, not swallowing the Ivermectin theories along with the livestock dewormer, and then rounded it off with calling Dr. Anthony Fauci as the world's biggest spreader of misinformation.
But Rodgers wasn't done there. After playing the victim card some more, he went after Mike Foss, an ESPN vice-president who apologized on Rodgers' behalf, saying that Foss was not helping the situation by doing that. Rodgers then took on a very petulant attitude and ended up spouting all the conspiracy theories (which he claims have all been proven to be true) and using them to blame the cancel culture.
By Wednesday, the clapback was coming in like a horde of linebackers rushing the quarterback.
Former ESPN personality Jemele Hill said that watching Rodgers on the Pat McAfee Show was like watching Newsmax:
She went on to call Rodgers out on his claims of being canceled, pointing out he's got a standing gig every week on the show. She added that he's not being canceled but everything he says is just that stupid:
Then on Wednesday, Karma stood up and got to work:
Aaron Rodgers will no longer appear as a guest on "The Pat McAfee Show" for the rest of the NFL season, Pat McAfee said on Wednesday.
McAfee applauded Rodgers as "a Hall of Famer" and a "massive piece of the NFL story whenever you go back and tell it" but said, "some of his thoughts and opinions, though, do piss off a lot of people."
"And I'm pumped that that is no longer going to be every single Wednesday of my life, which it has been for the last few weeks," McAfee said.
"There are going to be a lot of people that happy with that, myself included, to be honest," McAfee said. "The way it ended, it got really loud, really loud. I'm happy that that is not going to be my mentions going forward which is great news."
It would not be surprising in the least to learn that Foss and/or other ESPN executives had something to do with that announcement. Regardless, it is something that should have been done long ago.
But Rodgers deserves credit for one thing - instead of waiting for Kimmel or anybody else to get him, he chose to sack himself for a huge loss first. Kimmel might have been right. No one saw that coming!
