In response to New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers teasing him for showing in an advert selling the Covid vaccine, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce took a shot of his personal.
Rodgers on Tuesday appeared on The Pat McAfee Present to debate the Jets’ Monday night time loss to the Chiefs. Whereas speaking in regards to the Jets slowing down Kelce’s offensive manufacturing, Rodgers — a famous skeptic of the Covid vaccine — jokingly referred to him as “Mr. Pfizer.”
Kelce just lately appeared in adverts encouraging folks to get vaccinated in opposition to each the flu and Covid. Chatting with the media on Friday, Kelce stated he had no downside with the remark.
“I believed it was fairly good,” Kelce stated of the joke. “I imply, with the mustache proper now, I appear like a man named Mr. Pfizer. Who knew I’d get into the vax wars with Aaron Rodgers? Mr. Pfizer vs. the Johnson & Johnson household over there.”
The New York Jets are owned by Woody Johnson and Christopher Johnson, the great-grandsons of Robert Wooden Johnson I and heirs to the pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson. When Rodgers made the choice to go the Jets after 18 years with the Inexperienced Bay Packers, a lot of the discuss on-line was about the truth that Rodgers selected a workforce owned by the corporate that manufactures the very vaccine he opposes.
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