Travis Kelce shares that there’s no unhealthy blood between him and Aaron Rodgers as they proceed to make jabs about one another’s totally different stances on the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I believed it was fairly good,” Kelce, 34, stated on the Chiefs’ facility on Friday, October 6, of Rodgers calling the tight finish “Mr. Pfizer.”
Kelce continued: “I imply with the ‘stache proper now, I seem like a man named Mr. Pfizer. Who knew I’d get right into a vax conflict with Aaron Rodgers, man. Mr. Pfizer versus the Johnson & Johnson household over there.” (The Chiefs participant is referring to the Jets proprietor Woody Johnson, the inheritor to the Johnson & Johnson firm.)
Kelce’s response comes after Rodgers, 39, took a jab at him following Kelce’s latest industrial, the place he teamed up with Pfizer to induce the general public to get their subsequent COVID-19 booster shot.
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“[It was a] ethical victory on the market … that we hung with the champs and that our protection performed effectively, and [Chief’s quarterback] Pat [Mahomes] didn’t have a loopy recreation, and Mr. Pfizer [Kelce], we sort of shut him down. He didn’t have his loopy affect recreation,” Rodgers stated on the Tuesday, October 3, episode of “The Pac McAfee Present” of in regards to the Jets dropping to the Chiefs 23-20.
Kelce instructed reporters on Friday that he was “totally comfy” with Rodgers calling him “Mr. Pfizer” and stands by his reasoning for doing the commercial.
“I acquired [the COVID shot] due to, you recognize, retaining myself protected, the individuals on this constructing,” he defined.
This isn’t the primary time Rodgers has come beneath fireplace for his anti-vax stance. In November 2021, information broke that the NFL star and the Inexperienced Bay Packers have been being investigated by the NFL amid considerations that they broke COVID-19 protocols after Rodgers examined constructive for COVID-19. A number of retailers additionally reported that he was thought of unvaccinated by league requirements regardless of saying earlier than they he was “immunized.”
Just a few days later, Rodgers broke his silence and claimed he “didn’t lie” about his preliminary vaccination standing going into the 2021 NFL season.
“It wasn’t some type of ruse or lie, it was the reality. Had there been a follow-up assertion that I’d been immunized, I might have responded with this: I might have stated, ‘Look, I’m not some type of anti-vax-flat Earther. I’m someone who’s a crucial thinker,” he stated in a press release on the time. “I march to the beat of my very own drum. I consider strongly in bodily autonomy, [in the] means to make selections in your physique, to not need to acquiesce to some woke tradition or crazed group of people who say you must do one thing.”
Rodgers went on to share that he had an “allergy to an ingredient within the mRNA vaccines” and stated it was “greatest for [him]” to not get the vaccine, however he was “immunized.”
Following his feedback, the NFL introduced that Rodgers and Inexperienced Bay Packers participant Allen Lazard have been fined $14,650 for violating the COVID-19 protocols.
