Mister Rodgers’s neighborhood was not a happy place on Monday.
Aaron Rodgers took the opportunity of a live interview with The Pat McAfee Show to eviscerate a “cowardly” Anthony Fauci, “gutless” ESPN, and other enemies, real or imagined.
This was Michael Corleone at the end of The Godfather settling all family business. It was gonzo but wildly entertaining sports TV. When McAfee & Co. tried to gently steer the 42-year-old football legend to safer topics, he ran right over them. ProFootballTalk wrote the four-time MVP took a “flamethrower” to Fauci and ESPN. But they weren’t alone. Here are seven targets who took fire from Rodgers’s blunderbuss:
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Back in 2021, Rodgers was publicly roasted for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Turnabout’s fair play. Rodgers immediately took aim at Fauci, calling him an “absolute coward” for pleading the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before the U.S. Senate last week. “Are you kidding me? You got a pardon, and you plead over 100 times? What are you scared of, Tony?” asked Rodgers. “I thought you were the science?—‘I am science.’ And you get up there, and you can’t answer a question? What are we doing?”
