It looks like we will not have Aaron Rodgers to get started much longer.
The four -time MVP of the League said on Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Show” that it was “almost sure” of the next NFL season – its first quarter of the Pittsburgh and 21st Steelers in the general classification – will be the last.
And after that, said Rodgers, he will no longer be seen or heard.
“When all of this is done, it’s Keyser Söze. You won’t see me,” said Rodgers, referring to the unsecured villain in “the usual suspects”. “I will not be in the audience. I don’t want to live a public life. … I’m not going to be in the public’s eyes.
It may seem a little difficult to imagine that Rodgers readily disappears from the consciousness of the public during any significant period of time. In addition to being one of the big ones of all time in the quarter, Rodgers has kept a fairly high profile in popular culture in the past two decades.
He was in countless advertisements. He filled the host with “Jeopardy”. He made the short list of possible racing comrades during the presidential offer of Robert Kennedy Jr. (this spot finally went to Nicole Shanahan). He was in romantic relationships with women as famous like Olivia Munn, Danica Patrick and Shailene Woodley.
In recent years, Rodgers has also become known for his sometimes controversial opinions that he has been more than willing to share during his regular appearances on the McAfee program and other platforms.
But, Rodgers insisted on Tuesday: “I don’t want attention”, although he recognized: “I know it’s a story there.”
After 18 seasons with Green Bay packers and two with the New York Jets, Rodgers signed a one -year agreement with the Steelers as a free agent this summer. At the Mini-Camp this month, the MVP of the Super Bowl XLV told journalists that he had recently married. He did not publicly reveal the name of his wife.
Tuesday, Rodgers spoke for almost four minutes of the perceived invasions of his private life and his wife. He accused Paparazzi of “tracking down” both and said that the nameless media had either published sensitive information on the couple, or simply invent things about them.
“What happened to the common decency of security and a personal life that we must now plunge into your details where you live and what you are doing and with whom you are and who is your wife and if you even have a woman,” said Rodgers. “Because my wife is a private person, has not social media, has not been a public person, does not want to be a public person. But now, is that a strange thing?”
He added: “My private life is my private life, and it will stay like this. And I am with someone who wants to be deprived, and if and when she wants to be absent, and there is a photo, she will choose this. And it deserves the right to this.
“But the right to information on my privacy is so f – ridiculous and embarrassing. As, hey, do what you have to do. But try to leave me out of a conversation, sport world, for a month. Try to leave me aside, my personal life, my professional life. Try not to talk about me. … See if you can do this.”
