Aaron Rodgers, the New York Jets quarterback who recently implied that comedian Jimmy Kimmel had a nefarious connection with the late accused pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, would no longer be appearing on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show” show this NFL season, its host said Wednesday.
Rodgers was right back on the show the next day.
“‘Aaron Rodgers Tuesday,’ Season 4 is done,” McAfee said. “There are going to be a lot of people happy with that, myself included to be honest.” But then Rodgers was right back on McAfee’s show the next day.
“There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, who’s really hoping that doesn’t come out,” Rodgers had said last week, in reference to court documents connected to Epstein that were about to be unsealed. Kimmel’s name was not on any list associated with Epstein.
“Either he actually believes my name was going to be on Epstein’s list, which is insane,” Kimmel said in his opening monologue on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night, “or the more likely scenario is he doesn’t actually believe that; he just said it because he’s mad at me for making fun of his topknot and his lies about being vaccinated.” In 2021, Rodgers infamously argued that he was “immunized” against Covid-19 by using homeopathic treatment.
Those who’ve not been following the course of Rodgers’ public celebrity — and, perhaps, the trajectory of U.S. political discourse — might be confused about why a noted NFL quarterback would have such strong opinions about alternatives to vaccination and documents related to Epstein that were about to be unsealed. The answer is rather simple: This is what can happen when celebrities “do their own research.”
In Rodgers’ Tuesday appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” he brought up a monologue that Jimmy Kimmel had done at his expense. Rodgers said, “The history of this — whatever this is between Jimmy and I — this goes back to Covid times, right?…
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