‘Extremely disappointed’ Terry Bradshaw rips Aaron Rodgers in scathing rant

Go on, Terry.

Here, in the most tiresome of timelines, as we approach two years of life in a pandemic with more than 5 million people dead, the former quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers is taking the current quarterback of the Green Bay Packers to task for lying about his vaccination status.

It’s all as dumb and bad as you might expect but this is where we are. Terry Bradshaw — TERRY BRADSHAW! — represents the even-keeled, expert-trusting majority and Aaron Rodgers is the goofball who thinks because he’s good at football, has dated famous people and even hosted a gameshow, he can “do his own research” and then opt to endanger hundreds of people by fibbing about getting a vaccine.

Here’s Bradshaw’s delightfully succinct response to that, delivered on Fox NFL Sunday:

“I give Aaron Rodgers some advice. It would have been nice if he’d have just come to the Naval Academy and learned how to be honest, learned not to lie, because that’s what you did, Aaron, you lied to everyone. I understand ‘immunized.’ What you were doing is taking stuff that would keep you from getting Covid-19. You got Covid-19. Ivermectin is the cattle de-wormer. Sorry, folks, that’s what it is. We are a divided nation politically. We are a divided nation on Covid-19, whether or not to take the vaccine and, unfortunately, we’ve got players that pretty much only think about themselves and I’m extremely disappointed in the actions of Aaron Rodgers.”

And there you have it.

The whole segment, including comments from Jimmie Johnson, Howie Long and Micheal Strahan, is worth watching.

Jay Glazer reports here that Rodgers won’t face a suspension if he’s found to have violated the protocols for unvaccinated players; he could be fined. Beyond that, he’s going to get to go into a “testing holiday” which will let him not be tested for 90 days.

That’s absurd. Aaron Rodgers should be shoved to the sidelines for lying the way he did (as our Andy Nesbitt wrote last week). It was disrespectful to his teammates, everyone who works for the Packers, Packers fans (who are also team owners) and to all the healthcare professionals across the world who’ve struggled through a pandemic made worse by ignorance and self-righteous individualism that combines to create a stew of stupidity and selfishness.

Rodgers made himself a leader of that movement with an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show late last week. His lame act might have been funny if it wasn’t so dangerous.

Rodgers now wants to pretend he’s a bold freethinker, when previously he couldn’t even just admit he hadn’t gotten the vaccine. For all the “research” he’s supposedly done, he’s yet to provide any evidence to support his stance that this vaccine might be in any way dangerous. So far, 7.27 BILLION doses have been administered, and study after study after study has shown no evidence of any long-term danger.

Any notion that Aaron Rodgers is an elevated thinker or man of strong moral fiber has been completely wiped out, but if he really can make a case that the vaccine is dangerous, then he should step and do it. Be truly bold, Aaron. Give us your facts so they can be evaluated, and don’t pretend a “woke mob” won’t give them due consideration. That’s cowardly.

Either make your case, or admit the truth: You just didn’t feel like getting it, and you don’t really care what that means for anybody else.

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