Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is back in California after scrambling out Peru amidst the coronavirus crisis currently afflicting the world.
Rodgers told Pat McAfee and A.J. Hawk of “The Pat McAfee Show” that he and three others with him barely got through a crowded, panic-stricken airport and onto a private plane before the airport closed down indefinitely.
“We made it by about 15 minutes,” Rodgers explained.
Rodgers confirmed he is quarantined back in his new home along the ocean in Malibu and at no point has shown any symptoms of the virus.
Rodgers said leaving Peru “was quite the ordeal.”
The Packers quarterback was vacationing with girlfriend Danica Patrick and two other travelers in South America when the group had to call an audible and retreat back to the United States before the virus spread further and made international travel impossible.
He compared the frantic departure to a scene in the 2012 film “Argo.” Rodgers said the situation at the airport didn’t feel safe and there was “panic in the air.”
“…there was some moments where we worried we were not going to get out. It was absolute pandemonium at the airport,” Rodgers said.