Aaron Rodgers came back to “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday and wasted no time using the platform to air out old grievances.
With McAfee broadcasting live from Pittsburgh Steelers training camp, Rodgers touched on the Steelers’ upcoming season, but the conversation quickly veered into a familiar lane: Rodgers taking shots at TV networks, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the way his own controversies were covered.
Rodgers opened with a joke when McAfee first pressed him on the topic.
“I plead the fifth,” Rodgers joked when first answering McAfee's question.
From there, he zeroed in on what he saw as a double standard in the way networks handled his vaccination controversy compared with Fauci’s recent government hearing.
“How much time did they spend on my responses every week, on my vaccination status, on Taylor and Travis's wedding?” he asked. “Did they do even a minute on Tony Fauci?”
Rodgers made it clear he still believes he was on the right side of things.
“I told you I would be on the right side of history,” Rodgers said to McAfee.
“I feel great about it..
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Later in the rant, Rodgers turned his attention to ESPN and the Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini scandal, saying the network did not give that situation the same kind of attention it had given his own.
“How much time did your network spend on that?” he asked.
Other voices on the show quickly steered the discussion back to Fauci, but Rodgers had already made his point. After spending much of the last half-decade in the middle of the sports-media spotlight, he sounded like a man with plenty left on his chest.
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