The beleaguered Green Bay Packers’ quarterback tested positive for Covid-19, was “outted” as being unvaccinated after having publicly claimed since August that he’d been “immunized”, was called a liar on national television by Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw and was said to have been “directly and deliberately lying’’ by NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
He didn’t want to be vaccinated, or at least didn’t want to be told by his bosses he had to be vaccinated, but he didn’t have the courage or personal integrity to do what Lamar Jackson, Kirk Cousins, Cole Beasley and other prominent NFL anti-vaxers did either, which is to say simply that he wasn’t going to do it but would follow all the required protocols and testing.
Rodgers would have gotten away with this charade except his “holistic” concoction of a cattle deworming drug mixed with a frog’s leg, a rabbit’s foot, a newt’s knee and a lion’s liver, sprinkled with Wisconsin goat cheese and mixed in a bubbling cauldron of bratwurst failed to prevent him from becoming infected despite the clear science behind it.
When that happened it didn’t take long for his ruse to unravel.
Rodgers looked like a ridiculous blowhard, a believer in the kind of science that insists the world is flat and, to borrow Bradshaw’s characterization, a “liar” who put himself above his team.
Chiefs’ defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo blitzed Love 51 per cent of the time Sunday night as Rodgers watched from his sofa, something he would have been afraid to do had Rodgers been in Kansas City.
Love was bewitched, bothered and bewildered all game long, finishing 6-for-17 throwing against those blitzes for 30 passing yards.
This sad state of affairs led Packers’ head coach Matt LaFleur to throw himself on his sword Monday afternoon, saying he didn’t have a good enough plan.