Aaron Rodgers will be in the Hall of Fame five years after he retires. That is no longer in question. He cemented it long ago. At this point, he’s playing for money and a chance to win another ring. However, the longer he stays in the league, the more disliked he becomes. Not because of his performance on the field, mind you. It is more for his increasingly erratic actions off the field. People are getting bigger and bigger whiffs of his true personality. Many don’t find it appealing.
One specific trait is his conspiracy theory ideas. Rodgers was outspoken in his belief that COVID-19 vaccines don’t work. That is one of the reasons he opted for alternative treatments that weren’t recognized by the league as valid. Rodgers took that as a personal affront, and his hard feelings came out again back in January when he expressed doubt over the 2020 presidential election results. He’s gotten plenty of public backlash for such things. Yet nobody may have summed it up better than The Onion.
“Downplaying his team’s 23-7 week-one loss to the Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers told reporters Friday the rough start to the season was just part of the normal ups and downs of a massive global conspiracy. “Look, things didn’t break our way last Sunday, but that’s the reality when you’re living in the inescapable grasp of a shadowy cabal of entrenched elites who decide everything before it happens and control our movements,” said Rodgers, who attributed his own lackluster performance—throwing no touchdowns and one interception—to the regular difficulties of getting adjusted to a new season in a world where a surveillance system run by malevolent rogue actors is constantly working to interfere with your psychological grip on reality and leave you unable to process anything but fear.”
Aaron Rodgers didn’t actually say those things.
However, it isn’t too difficult to believe he would. That is how far out there he’s drifted over the years. Maybe he was always this way. Rodgers always felt like a unique guy. His personality didn’t jive with the usual elite quarterbacks at the top of the NFL. He couldn’t have been more different from the fun-loving, outspoken Brett Favre. Nobody can ever deny the talent. The personality feels like one that will vanish into the wilderness after his career finally ends.
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Maybe the Chicago Bears can help speed that along. Aaron Rodgers is coming off one of his worst regular season performances in a long time last week. Everybody expects him to bounce back on Sunday night against a team he’s dominated his entire career. It would be funny to hear what the reactions might be if he ends up losing. There were already rumblings that Rodgers is closer to retirement than people think. Maybe a humbling defeat on national TV might nudge him in that direction.
