ignatiusjreilly
Footballguy
[Note to moderators: I don't envision this as a political thread, but if you think it belongs in the PSF, feel free to move it.]
Was just discussing this with a buddy: Hearing Aaron Rodgers' interview on the Pat MacAfee show, we were both genuinely shocked to hear him spouting all sorts of bizarre pseudoscience. That's just really 180 degrees from what our impression of him had been before this week. Maybe he's always been like this and we never realized it, maybe he changed because of his Hollywood fiancee, who knows?
Anyway, that got me thinking: Which NFL player (current or former) would it most surprise you to learn had some really out-there views? Wouldn't have to be about the vaccine or anything relating to contemporary US politics. Think flat-earther, or "moon landing was faked", or some other crazy conspiracy theory, from a guy you had previously regarded as smart, thoughtful and sensible.
For some reason, I found it much easier to think of former players than current ones. My first thought was Peyton. Some of that is probably because the guy has been in the spotlight since he was in middle school, so he's always been very careful about how he comes across. Still, even though I'm pretty sure I don't agree with his politics, I really have a hard time imagining him spouting off about something crazy.
The other former player that came to mind is Larry Fitzgerald. If I ever heard that guy saying something really stupid, it would probably cause me to question everything I've ever believed.
But among current players? My friend suggested Russel Wilson, but I reminded him that, like Rodgers, he has a celebrity wife, so you can't discount that she may have introduced him to some homeopathic woo-woo types. Plus he's super-religious; nothing against that, but it wouldn't totally shock me if, say, he got cancer and announced he was going to try to pray it away.
Who else? Maybe Ryan Fitzpatrick? Don't know much about his personality, but he went to Harvard and got like 1580 on his SATs. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who has an actual medical degree?
There are probably some really obvious names that I'm missing.
Was just discussing this with a buddy: Hearing Aaron Rodgers' interview on the Pat MacAfee show, we were both genuinely shocked to hear him spouting all sorts of bizarre pseudoscience. That's just really 180 degrees from what our impression of him had been before this week. Maybe he's always been like this and we never realized it, maybe he changed because of his Hollywood fiancee, who knows?
Anyway, that got me thinking: Which NFL player (current or former) would it most surprise you to learn had some really out-there views? Wouldn't have to be about the vaccine or anything relating to contemporary US politics. Think flat-earther, or "moon landing was faked", or some other crazy conspiracy theory, from a guy you had previously regarded as smart, thoughtful and sensible.
For some reason, I found it much easier to think of former players than current ones. My first thought was Peyton. Some of that is probably because the guy has been in the spotlight since he was in middle school, so he's always been very careful about how he comes across. Still, even though I'm pretty sure I don't agree with his politics, I really have a hard time imagining him spouting off about something crazy.
The other former player that came to mind is Larry Fitzgerald. If I ever heard that guy saying something really stupid, it would probably cause me to question everything I've ever believed.
But among current players? My friend suggested Russel Wilson, but I reminded him that, like Rodgers, he has a celebrity wife, so you can't discount that she may have introduced him to some homeopathic woo-woo types. Plus he's super-religious; nothing against that, but it wouldn't totally shock me if, say, he got cancer and announced he was going to try to pray it away.
Who else? Maybe Ryan Fitzpatrick? Don't know much about his personality, but he went to Harvard and got like 1580 on his SATs. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who has an actual medical degree?
There are probably some really obvious names that I'm missing.