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Pat McAfee announced during the Wednesday, January 10 episode of his show that Aaron Rodgers would not make another appearance for the remainder of the NFL season.
McAfee’s announcement comes just a day after Rodgers went on a conspiracy-theory-laden rant on Tuesday about Anthony Fauci, vaccines, conducting his own scientific research, Jimmy Kimmel, being canceled/silenced, and all of his usual narcissistic talking points.
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— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) January 10, 2024
“There will be a lot of people who are happy with that, myself included to be honest with you,” McAfee said. “The way it ended, it got really loud. I am happy that he’s not going to be in my mentions going forward, which is great news.”
While some have pointed out that “Aaron Rodgers Tuesdays” only occurred during the NFL regular season, the 40-year-old made frequent appearances during the offseason in 2023 and was originally scheduled to appear throughout the playoffs, according to The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand.
To be fair, Rodgers only makes his weekly appearance during the NFL regular season — he has done this for the last four years — but this makes it sound like McAfee kicked him off the show.
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) January 10, 2024
At this time, it is unclear if the removal of Rodgers from the show is just for the remainder of the 2023-24 season or if it will extend into next season, too.
In recent weeks, Rodgers has used The Pat McAfee Show to make tons of headlines, particularly following his insinuation that Jimmy Kimmel was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
Rodgers’ comments led to Kimmel threatening legal action, which Rodgers then responded to by going on The Pat McAfee Show this week to spend close to an hour airing his grievances and talking about vaccine research/conspiracies.
On Monday, Rodgers also told reporters at a press conference that “bulls— that has nothing to do with winning has to get out of the building.” During that same press conference, he also told them to tune into The Pat McAfee Show to hear the next chapter of his war-of-words with Jimmy Kimmel.
Now that the platform of The Pat McAfee Show has been taken away from him, it’ll be interesting to see what avenue Rodgers ultimately chooses to continue spewing his nonsense into the universe. Surely Fox Sports 1 would love to have him as a weekly guest, right?