You people are the drunkest, horniest person at the party. You will do literally anybody. Philosophically speaking.
One wonders… is it the CTE’s or was he always just dumb?
99.999% of the time to be a NFL starter you’ve been the best player in the field at least at your position up till you were drafted into the NFL.
It’s just how the numbers work out, exceptions are noteworthy because they’re exceptional.
It doesn’t make you dumb, but because education and football are so intertwined, if you don’t care about education no one is going to try and make you.
Then if you keep your mouth shut in public till you sign a big contract, no one knows how dumb you are and it feels like it comes out of nowhere
I forget his name, but a recent NFL player legitimately believes he’s part solar powered reptilian and that’s why he’s a pro athlete
Had to Google it but: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Watkins
Notable that he’s acknowledged his mental health and addiction struggles since making the flat earth and lizard person comments.
Looks like it was right around when he got out of the NFL.
That’s kind of my point, an athlete of that level can say/do anything and as long as they keep playing football everyone goes along with it
With Rodgers trying to transition to podcasts before retiring from the NFL, he may never get that moment of clarity where he’s not surrounded by yes men. Especially since saying insane shit on podcasts is probably the most attention he’s gotten not connected to football
For the entirety of Aaron Rodgers’ life, people are going to be telling him he’s amazing, and that fucks with everyone’s head. You can’t only get positive feedback and wind up well adjusted.
The mental health comments were 2020, so he was still playing. Technically still in the NFL, just a free agent
He’s always had agents and publicists filtering what he says publicly. I think this is just unfiltered Rodgers.
Who cares what he thinks? He’s famous for mastering the art of spiral throwing a ball, which is a skill perfected by cavemen using spears to hunt with. He is no smarter or more educated than those cavemen were. In fact way less so due to the brain damage.
No kidding, will news outlets stop giving platforms to people famous for unrelated reasons?
spoiler
No, clicks are a perverse incentive.
He actually is very intelligent, as are most NFL quarterbacks. He supposedly scored a 1310 on the SAT, and got a 35 on the NFL’s Wonderlic test (well above average). Also QBs don’t suffer nearly as much brain damage as most NFL positions, especially Rogers.
That said, he’s an idiot.
you can’t trust the grades of athletes in the first place, there are documented scandals which make this plain. The more important you are to the team (ie the more profitable you are to the school, filling seats and winning championships) the more likely you are to be given good grades even if you didn’t do the work.
Not to say it applies to this guy, but fair warning…
You understand less about his job than he understands about AIDS.
This sounds like a guy that sets himself on fire outside a courthouse.
You should know: this is in pretty poor taste
Glad I never liked him.
QAaron.
He must have had to much time on his hands while injured last year
Only if time travel is somehow involved. Here’s a National Library of Medicine article/book review on the history of HIV/AIDS.
“The earliest identified isolate of HIV-1 comes from an unknown male in Kinshasa, Congo, in 1959. The first identified patient with HIV infection and AIDS was a Scandinavian man in the 1960s, who had visited west-central Africa. Then came sporadic cases among gay men in the United States and among Haitians in the 1970s, leading to the global explosion in the '80s and '90s and the literal decimation of peoples in several tropical countries.”
I’d say don’t source the history of diseases from NFL players, but those who would take my advice seriously probably don’t need it.
That’s still not when it first showed up, that’s when they first identified it.
The first case was likely 1920, maybe even the tail end of the 1800s.
And back then, people just died from all sorts of shit and modern medicine was practically non-existent in the area. Even when it spread to more developed countries, it took a while to put the pieces together because it wasn’t like aids directly kills. The aids just made all types of shit more likely to happen and kill you. That’s why it felt like it spread so fast all over the planet. It was already there and people had it, they just weren’t symptomatic yet and wouldn’t be for months/years.
I mean, look at the nightmare syphilis was for centuries. If AIDS had spread a century earlier no one would have known what the fuck was going on. It was bad, but it could have been so much worse.
Sure would have been nice if people like Ronald Reagan and Marianne Williamson hadn’t pushed people to rely on faith healing
I legit appreciate the history lesson but you don’t have to debunk posts on nottheonion haha
You’re probably right :) I have this compulsion where I always want to know WHY something is wrong, so when I hear something like this I run off to look it up.
Nah, keep debunking. Just because we know the claim isn’t true doesn’t mean we know what is. For this one, we can’t invert the statement to find the truth. “The government didn’t create AIDS in the 1980s” is incredibly vague so I enjoyed your summary
I say that Aaron Rodgers is an idiot
And one of you are correct. (Hint: it’s not Aaron Rodgers unless you’re both correct(you aren’t both correct))
Who?
A very successful, aging NFL Quarterback. He hasn’t played much the last couple of years due to injury and getting old. He’s been outspoken about various far right and conspiracy theories while not playing by appearing on podcasts and radio shows.
A lot of people wish he would just shut up and retire at this point. But you know he’s going to milk his platform as long as he can.
US government.
Who knew that a lifetime of concussions turns your brain to mush?
If the US created it in the 1980s, how did a guy in the Congo catch it in 1959?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_early_HIV/AIDS_cases
The US government also did time travel so that Obama could kill Kennedy.
Effin knew it
But Kennedy dying started a series of events that lead directly to Nixon, their second favorite boy.
Don’t give Aaron new ideas.
Ya done messed up A. A. Ron!
Concussions are serious problems
Given his other stances, I’m surprised he isn’t claiming the anti-vaxx theory that it came from the polio vaccine.
Aids the disease is natural. The aids epidemic was made by the us government by refusing to follow best practices for an epidemic when it was killing undesirable citizens.
It affected many countries. France in particular. Since they helped discover the virus in conjunction with the US. There are books written about this. Hell there is even a movie about it.
Didn’t just affect the US though.
Yes, but it killed more Americans than the viet cong so maybe our government should’ve acknowledged it as a problem before several years of it decimating our population
Also we were the first country to have an outbreak and we’re the medical research powerhouse of the industrial world, especially in the 1980s. But instead of that our president told his surgeon general not to acknowledge it. When asked about the disease killing homosexuals Ronald Reagan laughed.
Oh absolutely. Governments around the world were happy to let it kill gay people.
And here in America it was a perk in their eyes when it started plaguing hetero black folks. They only started really caring when it hit a white child.
They used to celebrate our dead. And that’s why I have no shame celebrating the deaths of Limbaugh and Reagan.
Before he died, Rock Hudson asked the Reagan’s for help getting access to experimental medical treatment. They had been friends. They essentially ghosted him after his diagnosis.
Reagan didn’t bother forming an investigation committee until 1987, and he literally appointed people like the head of fucking AMWAY to head it.
They didn’t design the virus to kill us, but they found it a happy development. Go back and watch Tammy Faye talking to an AIDS patient in the 80s - the fact that she said she was willing to be in the same room with him was a big deal (he came in through TV because he was too sick to be on set).
They only started really caring when it hit a white child.
They didn’t give a shit about that white child either for quite a while. Ryan White was treated like a pariah by basically all of Kokomo as if he was going to give the entire town AIDS. It was disgusting. People only started caring when it was really clear he was dying and they suddenly grew a conscience about it.
Not that this made them any less racist or homophobic.
Fuck rush and ronald, I’m glad they are 6 feet under, the rest of the right wing shit stains too. A bane on humanity is what they are.
