Aaron Rogers Is Kind of Dopey

 I watched Jeopardy while Aaron Rogers was a replacement for Alex Trebek.  I thought he did a good job and would be a step above a few ex-players who traded their jersey for a job in the main stream sports media.  I get most of my sports info from the radio over night or on the way to sleep or in the car.

Rogers was a late bloomer in football and as kind of surprise to me he attended the University of California Berkley.  Transferring from a junior college he played for the Cal Bears.  He left school skipping his senior for the NFL Draft.

Very recently the rich college dropout said he was immunized when asked whether he had been vaccinated after testing positive for COVID 19.  He had not.

If you are a fan of the Green Bay Packers and still believe  that Rogers has shown great leadership skills as a quarterback you have been the victim of a hoax.  Maybe a 37 year old football player can roll the dice and avoid the worst aspects of COVID 19 but the collective bargaining agreement that he is part of as a player and an integral part of the Packers has cost them a game which they lost and made their participation in the post season more difficult.

If you are charitable you might think it was not quite "risky business" because football is already a very brutal sport.  He is still a candidate for dementia from chronic traumatic encephalopathy with three known concussions.

His COVID 19 evasion of the truth will haunt him a lot more than a "jab".    

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  1. John AsgeirsonNovember 9, 2021 at 5:00 AM

    And in the New York Times this morning there was an editorial about the damage the Rogers misinformation can cause. Unvaccinated Americans, for instance, are roughly 10 times as likely to be hospitalized and 11 times as likely to die from Covid-19 as vaccinated Americans, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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