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Aaron Rodgers โ€œcould roll out of bed and create a news cycle. Heโ€™s unbelievable. Heโ€™s a content machineโ€. Itโ€™s true and itโ€™s why the bestselling sportswriter Ian Oโ€™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. Oโ€™Connorโ€™s new book, Out of the Darkness, tells Rodgersโ€™ story from childhood in California through college stardom at Berkeley to Super Bowl glory and on to something beyond fame โ€“ a sort of infamy, even.

Rodgers, Oโ€™Connor says, โ€œwas 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 โ€™21, and when he was asked if he was vaccinated, he said, โ€˜Yeah, Iโ€™ve been immunized.โ€™ Up until that point, he was not a villain at all.

โ€œHe 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 athletesโ€™ 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 โ€ฆ he was not this polarizing figure. People looked up to him.

https://www.theguardian.com/sp...-conspiracy-theories


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