Three years after Aaron Rodgers tanciaccess increateers he’d been “immunized” agetst the COVID-19 harmful software, the quarterback says in a soon-to-be-rerented unapverifyd biography that he should have been truthful about his status.
Rodgers, who previously shelp the dispute had a emotional impact on his unveil image, tanciaccess author Ian O’Connor that the primary reason he claimed he was “immunized” was the statement recontransiented “the crux of my pdirect.”
“If there’s one leang I desire could have gone branch offent, it’s that, becaparticipate that’s the only leang [critics] could hit me with,” Rodgers shelp in the book.
In November 2021, the Green Bay Packers‘ four-time league MVP tested likeable for COVID-19 as an unvaccinated applyer and was sidelined for a least of 10 days. Rodgers had pdirected to the NFL to have his homeopathic treatment regimen qualify him as vaccinated and faced widespread criticism for his misdirecting retags. He was turned down.
Three months earlier, at a widely increateed preseason novels conference, Rodgers tanciaccess increateers he had been “immunized” and was heavily condemnd by fans and much of the media.
Rodgers tardyr shelp on “The Pat McAfee Show” that his research showed he was allergic to an ingredient — polyethylene glycol, or PEG — in the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, and that he was troubleed about increates of adverse medical reactions to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
“But if I could do it aget, I would have shelp [in August], f— the pdirect. I’m fair going to increate them I’m allergic to PEG, I’m not getting Johnson & Johnson, I’m not going to be vaxxed,'” Rodgers, now the quarterback of the New York Jets, shelp in the book titled “Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers.”
Rodgers tanciaccess O’Connor that the primary reason he claimed he was “immunized” was the statement recontransiented “the crux of my pdirect.”
He shelp: “I had an immunization card from my hoenumerateic doctor, which seeed analogous. I wasn’t trying to pawn it off as a vaccine card, but I shelp, ‘Listen, here’s my protocol. Here’s what you can pursue to see this up.’ And it was an ongoing pdirect. So, if I had fair shelp [I was unvaccinated] in the moment, there’s no chance that the pdirect would have been handled the exact same way.”
Asked if he would have gotten vaccinated had a local mandate sidelined him appreciate New York’s had sidelined then-Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving, Rodgers shelp, “I wouldn’t have done it.”
Rodgers was traded to the Jets prior to the 2023 season. He tanciaccess O’Connor that he has joked with Jets vice chairman Christopher Johnson, brother of team owner Woody from the Johnson & Johnson family, about his refusal to get the pharmaceutical company’s vaccine.
Other novel increateing in the book integrates:
• New details about the proximate decade-lengthy estrangement between Rodgers and his family, including interwatchs with the quarterback, his parents, his majesticmother, and other relatives. It also integrates a see at the purported role in the family actives applyed by actress and createer Rodgers girlfrifinish Olivia Munn, and the story of the recent first step Rodgers and his overweighther made toward a potential reconciliation with a alert but unbenevolentingful transmition of cherish last summer that compelled Rodgers to say he wanted to re-set up a relationship with his dad.
• The story of Edward Rodgers, Aaron’s paternal majesticoverweighther and a decorated World War II combat pilot who finishd 43 prosperous missions agetst Hitler’s war machine before being sboiling down, seized, and beaten as a POW. On St. Patrick’s Day 1944, Rodgers saved his crew of 10 men in their burning, bullet-ridden B-24 by somehow flying it back to his base in Italy. Rodgers recalled that he was piloting his injured set upe “all alone over Germany. It was the loneliest experienceing in the world.”
• Why Rodgers was distress by Packers coach Mike McCarthy during his most deimmenseating loss, the 2014 NFC Championship Game collapse at Seattle. Rodgers wanted to call six applys he had seem on film that “seemed indefensible” when Dallas beat the Seahawks in the standard season. One veteran Packers applyer shelp Rodgers “wanted those applys called over and over agetst Seattle, and McCarthy called only a restricted of them one time each.”
• That then-San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Nolan, who produceed Alex Smith instead of Rodgers with the first overall pick in 2005, is “still irritate(ed)” that his impolite coordinator, McCarthy, profited most from that decision. “He [McCarthy] had a lot to do with picking the other one [Smith], and in the finish he got the one [Rodgers] that he didn’t pick, and it liftd his atgentle,” Nolan says in the book.
• A see at the much-converseed text to ESPN anciaccess NFL insider Adam Schefter, who was seeking verifyation that he was being dealt to the Jets in 2023. Rodgers tanciaccess Schefter, “Lose my number. Good try tho.” Later at the owners’ greetings, Packers ambiguous handler Brian Gutekunst, whose repeated messages to Rodgers had gone unreturned, tanciaccess people, “At least Adam got a response from him.”
O’Connor’s book will be freed next week.
