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From a new book about #12â€Ķ..



Aaron Rodgers “could roll out of bed and create a news cycle. He’s unbelievable. He’s a content machine”. It’s true and it’s why the bestselling sportswriter Ian O’Connor is talking to the Guardian from his home in the New York area, where Rodgers, a Green Bay Packers great, now plays quarterback for the Jets. O’Connor’s new book, Out of the Darkness, tells Rodgers’ story from childhood in California through college stardom at Berkeley to Super Bowl glory and on to something beyond fame – a sort of infamy, even.

Rodgers, O’Connor says, “was not this polarizing figure until really about three years ago when Covid hit and he was in the middle of a press conference in August ’21, and when he was asked if he was vaccinated, he said, ‘Yeah, I’ve been immunized.’ Up until that point, he was not a villain at all.

“He was considered a socially aware athlete. He had spoken up on behalf of Colin Kaepernick and his right to protest inequities in American society. He had supported the athletes’ right to kneel during the national anthem. Right after the terrorist attacks in Paris [in 2015], a fan yelled out an anti-Muslim slur, and he rebuked that fan â€Ķ he was not this polarizing figure. People looked up to him.

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@Tdog posted:

it's not the arm.  it's the legs and father time knock knock knocking on remaining upright.  we shall see

Exactly.  Time will tell if he can move around like he is used to and father time is undefeated when it comes to aging.

Honestly, as much as I appreciate his time as our QB, he is now somewhere else and I don't really care.

There's a Vanity Fair article out about Rodgers and the book. You can look it up.

This thread is about football and here's the end of the article.

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When you look at their roster, if they’re healthy, they can compete for the Super Bowl. I think what they should focus on is just winning the division. It’s been so long since they’ve won the AFC East. They really need to focus on that and then take it from there. But I’ll say the Jets will go 11-6. They’ll make the playoffs and they’ll lose the AFC Championship Game at Kansas City. How’s that?

Last edited by Boris

Nah, he'd be a coach in the Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, Singletary, Maradonna, etc., mold: HOF players who struggle to teach the game because it came so easy for them, and who are often short-tempered when their players don't reach the lofty heights like they did because they don't realize just how gifted they were as it came easily to them. (Not that they didn't have to work for it, but that they had, physically and mentally, what others can only dream about having.)

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