Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared Tuesday on "The Pat McAfee Show" donning an anti-cancel culture hoodie after critics of his have launched a campaign to cancel the NFL star's advertising partnerships.
The athlete's statement piece displayed "Cancel Culture" emblazoned on the black sweatshirt's front with the text crossed out. Rodgers had noted that the hoodie is a gift Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, who himself endured a recent character attack when Business Insider published a November hit piece on the media mogul.
"I like to speak the truth and I'm not part of this woke cancel culture that gets off on trying to silence people all the time," Rodgers said during an earlier interview.
Last month, Rodgers used the term back in November responding to backlash from the "woke mob" for saying he is "immunized" against the coronavirus.
"I realize I'm in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now, so before my final nail gets put in my cancel-culture casket, I think I'd like to set the record straight on some of the blatant lies that are out there about myself right now," Rodgers said on Nov. 5, before modeling the cultural message this week.
Rodgers has made national headlines off the field for pushing back against the league's "draconian" health and safety coronavirus protocols.
The unvaccinated 38-year-old had tested positive for COVID-19 in early November and opted to receive an alternative treatment from a personal doctor. The NFL and NFLPA agreed the chosen response was not enough to be considered vaccinated, and Rodgers was later fined by the league for violating COVID-19 protocol.
COVID-19 alarmists have lambasted State Farm for "failing to repuditate" and "validating the behavior" of the company's vaccine-hesistant ambassador after the advertiser stood by Rodgers. However, he lost Prevea Health's sponsorship amid the vaccination controversy with the medical decision costing Rodgers his spokesperson gig. Rodgers had been supporting the health care organization's health and wellness initiatives throughout Wisconsin, since 2012.
McAfee called Rodgers an "immunicorn" Tuesday asking where he falls in the NFL's testing protocol as the Omicron variant spreads through the winter months.
"I'm still under the 90 days, so as far as I know, I don't have to test until those 90 days are up," Rodgers said, referencing a 90-day break from testing.
While he's in the testing-free window, he wouldn't face another COVID-19 test until days after the NFC Championship game.
Rodgers also voiced "frustration" with the NFL and the public's lack of "conversations around health and around treatment options" for COVID-19.
The league is experiencing an outbreak with more than 100 players who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week. And last Monday, the NFL announced that coaches and team personnel are required to receive a booster by Dec. 27.
Rodgers expressed confusion over why coronavirus-positive players without symptoms couldn't play. "Who are you endangering if you don't have symptoms and test positive?" Rodgers questioned, mirroring NHL legend Steve Yzerman who said that he feels COVID-19 testing is unnecessary for healthy players.
"I know I'm getting political, but at the end of the day, our players are testing positive with very little symptoms, if any symptoms at all. I don't see it as a threat to their health at this point. So I think we need to take it a step further and question why are we even testing guys that have no symptoms?" Yzerman said.
Rodgers, who suffered a fractured pinky toe, and the Green Bay Packers host the Cleveland Browns for a Christmas Day showdown on Saturday afternoon.
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