Aaron Rodgers may be out for the season after suffering an Achilles injury during his first game with the New York Jets. But on Tuesday, the 39-year-old quarterback appeared on the The Pat McAfee Show to give some commentary on his new team's performance against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night, and made a jab, so to speak, at Travis Kelce while doing so.
"I think there's some sentiment that there's some sort of moral victory out there that we hung with the champs and that our defense played well," Rodgers said. "Pat didn't have a crazy game and Mr. Pfizer, we kind of shut him down a little bit. He didn't have a crazy impact game. I felt like for the most part, we played really tough on defense the last three quarters."
"Our defense played really well and Mr. Pfizer didn't have a crazy impact on the game" ????@AaronRodgers12 #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/AGzbcRFjdi
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) October 3, 2023
Rodgers, of course, was referring to Taylor Swift's newly minted boyfriend, who currently appears in Pfizer commercials advocating getting this season's Covid-19 shot at the same time as the flu shot. Given Rodgers prior relationships with vaccines, however, his burn could be interpreted as a self-own.
In August of last year, Rodgers admitted to misleading the public about his vaccination status the season prior, after he claimed to have been "immunized" against the virus but ended up missing a game a few months later due to Covid-19 protocols. At the time, Rodgers told Joe Rogan that he wasn't an "anti-vax flat earther" so much as a "critical thinker."
"I'd been ready the entire time for this question and had thought about how I wanted to answer it," he told Rogan. "And I had come to the conclusion I'm gonna say, 'I've been immunized.' And if there's a follow-up, then talk about my process, but thought there's a possibility that I say 'I'm immunized,' maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don't."
"I knew at some point if I contracted COVID or if word got out, because it's the NFL and there's leaks everywhere, it was possible I'd have to answer the questions," Rodgers added. "And that's when the shit storm hit, because now I'm a liar, I'm endangering the community, my teammates, all these people. And then, you know, attempted takedown of me and, you know, my word and my integrity began."
Given the controversy surrounding Rodgers vaccination status and his subsequent remarks, being labeled "Mr. Pfizer" doesn't seem so bad in comparison.
