Aaron Rodgers is mad as hell about the state of the major sports industry, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
On Wednesday, during his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, the New York Jets quarterback — who has thrown for least 300 yards once in a game since December 2021, who last won a playoff matchup when the world was still firmly in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, who makes more headlines for throwing his Jets teammates and Jets coaches under the bus than any of his play on the field these days, and who gladly parades around his pseudo-intellectualism — put ESPN and its well-known “embrace debate” strategy in his crosshairs.
Note: Rodgers is definitely the first person to ever bring this subject to the spotlight. No one has ever talked about this before. What a hero.
While being interviewed on an ESPN show, Rodgers maintained that he’s sick and tired of the biggest sports network in America platforming the opinions of all these washed-up athletes who haven’t been relevant in years, as if anyone should care about what they have to say.
You know, he might have a point! Check out these salient and totally unrelated points to Rodgers at the 1:36:22 mark below:
Here’s Rodgers’ argument in plain text:
“I’m talking about these experts on TV who nobody remembers what they did in their career,” Rodgers said. “So, in order for them to stay relevant, they have to make comments that keep them in the conversation. That wasn’t going on in 2008, 2009. The SportsCenter of my youth, those guys made highlights so much fun. And that’s what they showed on SportsCenter. Now it’s all talk shows and people whose opinions are so important now and they believe they’re the celebrities now, they’re the stars for just being able to talk about sports or give a take about sports, many of which are unfounded or asinine, as we all know. But that’s the environment we’re in now.”
Ugh, Rodgers is so right. Someone should really do something about all these egotistical, self-important sports figures who have nothing to offer anymore as playing athletes. Oh, well, at least we have the quarterback who refuses to take any accountability as the sports world’s ombudsman.
What would we do without him?
