Buh-bye Rogers...

 Oh, sure.  Some will undoubtedly blame "cancel culture" for the rather disturbingly quick disappearance of Aaron Rogers, but I fully expect that man to ... well, let's just say that when the NFL is done with him, I doubt we'll see him in any shade of green ever again.

In pure leadership terms, we're all getting one heck of a front row seat to how an alleged leader turns his back on his team, his community, and his future.  All because an alleged "professional" athlete was just fucking dumb.

And yes, that profanity is absolutely appropriate.  When professional sports teams select "captains" very often it's the position the player plays during the contest that will help propel them into leadership.  When it comes to football, there are no positions that dominate their sport like the Quarterback.  In nearly each and every play that a team might expect to score points in a proactive manner, it is the quarterback who makes the thousands of split-second decisions that increase the chances the team has to score.  These days, the plays may be sent in from the sideline coaches via radio, but the bottom line is that it is the quarterback's responsibility to communicate that play to his teammates, and then, once the play begins, the quarterback is responsible for executing the play.  And when this is a simple forward run, the quarterback hands the ball to the individual running it, securely transferring it to that player, who then takes over the responsibility to execute the play.  If, on the other hand, it is a pass play, then the quarterback has to know where his down-field receivers - all of them - are expected to be, and more importantly, they then must evaluate the situation on the field and determine which of those players are likely to catch the ball when he throws it.  And then he has to throw the ball with precision to avoid it falling accidentally into the hands of the opposing team.  And he has to do this in literal seconds before players who may be easily twice his weight come crashing into him to end the play - and possibly, with each play, they could end his participation in that day's game, harm him so badly that he may be out for several weeks, months, or even end his professional career.

So with all of that said, it is rather obvious that quarterbacks with even limited offensive success may find themselves captains of their team because the quarterback is the position of the leader.  And as often happens, the quarterback is a true leader both on and off-field for their team.  Aaron Rogers gave every example over the last week of being nothing like a leader.

I mean, I should probably start with the opening he left us.  First off, his suggestion that he was "immunized" was false.  He took health advice from some idiot with a podcast.  That's ... well, like taking life-and-death information from someone who has so little respect for themselves that they've not bothered to do even basic research.

I suppose it should go without saying, but as we're in that rare area, Aaron Rogers taking advice from some podcast idiot is about the equivalent of Aaron Rogers taking quarterback advice from me.  Except in this particular point, I am not likely to get him killed.  Injecting himself with dewormer because some jackass said it might help makes about as much sense as putting a loaded automatic gun to your head and pulling a trigger.  That is, if you're somewhat familiar with the old "game" of "Russian Roulette" it is done with an old cylinder pistol.  These weapons typically had six chambers, so idiots playing this stupid game would load one round in the pistol, spin the cylinder, put the barrel against their head with the business end against a temple or worse, then pull the trigger.  Now, if you're a sane individual, you prefer a much better than five in six chances of survival - because that means you've got about a 16% chance of dying.  I drive cars regularly, and my odds there are better - and still not great.  But I take precautions.

To take health care advice from a jackass, well, you get what you pay for.  And what Rogers got was a load of horseshit.  And not particularly good quality shit, either.  

But now he's claiming that the NFL and his team knew he was not vaccinated.  Which means that he knowingly, with his full team mangement's knowledge, violated every COVID protocol rule - such as unvaccinated players wearing masks at events, not gathering in large groups with other players, and wearing a mask on the sidelines at games.

Frankly, if I were a general manager for any of the other NFL teams right now, I would file a complaint with the NFL about Rogers, and I would not permit him into any stadium where my team would also be, because if he's lied about his vaccine status, then who can trust him about anything else?  I mean, he says he's free of rabies and dementia, but I don't think that a sane person would take health care advice from some jackass with a podcast.  And I am willing to bet that when the jackass himself says "only idiots would take my advice" he may have said one true thing.  

But that's more than I expected.  

As for Rogers, he just assured he won't be a first-ballot hall of fame entrant.  I would suggest that Rogers be added to the Pete Rose Hall of Fame right next to that cheating son of a bitch, and lumped together with all of the other cheaters, deceiters, liars, thugs, and general assholes who really shouldn't be more than a joke.  Sure, Rogers will remain famous long after he's dead.  And he deserves all of the abuse he'll get.  And his thin skin will eventually look like a window screen from all of his crocodile tears when the only endorsement contracts he can get are for dewormers for humans.  Last I checked, anyone with decent hygiene and self-care doesn't have to worry about that, but I guess Rogers has chosen his own, filthy diseased morons who will buy any sort of sucker idea and make someone else rich.  

Sure hope he's got a lot of that money socked away and in safe investments.  Or that he's prepared to die young, because he ain't worth much now.  In any sense of the word.

But you know, I suppose I might be a little harsh here.  After all, it's only once or so in a hundred years a pandemic rolls into the neighborhood, so it should be expected that some people will behave poorly, foolishly, or idiotically, and provide the bad examples we all need.  Whether that puts me in a "woke mob" or a member of a higher species than that idiot Rogers, I don't much care.  He's an idiot, and will likely die fairly young.  Tom Brady, on the other hand, may be playing for another twenty years.  Rogers will likely end up dead because he took someone's advice that a high current jolt to his body might turn him into some sort of superhero.  It won't, but it should leave not much more than a grease spot to clean up if he does it properly.  

Buh-bye, dickhead.