NFL world reacts to Aaron Rodgers' new look

Table Of Content

• What we learned from draft's 2nd night
• Aaron Rodgers' HIV Comments Spark Furious Backlash
• NFL Honors ceremony indicated to Aaron Rodgers he needed a haircut
• Newsletters
• Packers' Aaron Rodgers explains reason for long hair, cites 'hero'
• Failing to understand what drugs are.
• What Happened to Aaron Rodgers's Hair? NFL Fans Troll the QB on Twitter

Rodgers entered the game with the Packers down and despite a defeat, Rodgers was impressive coming off the bench. Rodgers threw his first career touchdown pass (to Greg Jennings) and finished the game completing 18 of 26 passes for 201 yards. It was this performance that assured the Packers and their fans that Rodgers could actually be a suitable follow-up to Favre.

What we learned from draft's 2nd night

Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is an infection that attacks the body’s immune system. Left untreated, HIV can progress to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. HIV currently has no cure; once people get HIV, they have it for life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. CNN spoke with two people who recalled Rodgers spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Maybe Rodgers wasn't getting enough attention last fall because he tried to start a vaccine feud with Kelce, whom he referred to as "Mr. Pfizer." In 2021, the quarterback told reporters he was immunized against the virus, suggesting he had been vaccinated, but he turned out to be using a homeopathic treatment instead.

Aaron Rodgers' HIV Comments Spark Furious Backlash

In Kennedy’s assessment, Fauci pulled government strings and worked with pharmaceutical companies in the 1980s to get an unsafe, ineffective drug approved as the only HIV treatment. Then, Kennedy alleged Fauci used the same tactics during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the full podcast interview, Rodgers attributed his ideas about the alleged AIDS crisis-inspired "game plan" and the falsehood about AZT to Kennedy’s 2021 book. Some trial patients shared the medication with other people, several AZT recipients received blood transfusions that could have helped them fight HIV and others had to stop taking the drug, according to documents published later.

NFL Honors ceremony indicated to Aaron Rodgers he needed a haircut

Fauci was instrumental in developing treatments that enable people with HIV to live long lives but in the 1980s, he was often criticized for the government's response to the AIDS epidemic. Additionally, under the administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, he oversaw the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, which Rodgers has frequently criticized. Aaron Rodgers loves to complain about the attention he receives from the media and the NFL world, but he also makes sure to put himself in a position to receive all that attention as well. So even when he makes a subtle change to his appearance, that’s become something to take note of, which Aaron loves whether he admits it or not.

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He's a rare breed of dude who can make most facial hair looks work — which is pretty exemplary in a few entries down this list. Rodgers caught the football world's attention this offseason, not only for his drama with the Packers, but because of his new 'do entering his next, and potentially last, season with Green Bay. "I think when I saw my picture from the NFL Honors, I said, 'Woof. Might be time,'" Rodgers said.

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Rodgers has said in those podcasts that he credits his back-to-back MVP seasons to using ayahuasca and his mental health has improved since. Rodgers, who led the Green Bay Packers to a last-second overtime victory at home over the New England Patriots after a rough start, didn’t seem to win many fans by appearing to sprout strands of hair from under his hat, around his ears. A year of offseason drama makes a person reconsider life, and in Rodgers' case, his hairstyle. While photos snapped of Rodgers over the offseason show a growing head of nearly shoulder-length hair, he fully taps into 2014 men's hair trends an goes full man bun for the start of the 2021 season.

We fact-checked in 2023 a similar claim that "hundreds of thousands" of people died from taking AZT and rated it False. Kennedy is an anti-vaccine activist whose presidential campaign of conspiracy theories was PolitiFact’s 2023 Lie of the Year. He repeats false talking points from other people who say that HIV does not cause AIDS, and this AIDS denialism was apparent in his Fauci book. Rodgers said Fauci promoted an antiretroviral drug in the 1980s called zidovudine, also known as azidothymidine or AZT, to treat HIV. Rodgers falsely claimed that taking AZT was "killing people" at that time.

Those decisions have coincided with similarly unorthodox decisions regarding his health, which include Panchakarma cleanses and the use of ayahuasca — the "hippy s—" Rodgers referred to in his interview. The Packers quarterback has been one of the most consistent signal-callers in the NFL, earning his second consecutive MVP honors in 2021 at the age of 38 years old. One thing that has changed throughout his 18-year career, however, is his haircut. Less than 12 hours later, Rodgers and Lazard were back at MSG for some playoff basketball.

The truth is, news costs money to produce, and we are proud that we have never put our stories behind an expensive paywall. And if it is, then he'll have left his blood, sweat, tears — and strands of hair — all on Lambeau Field. Rodgers began to really tighten up his play — and the hairdo — in 2012, swapping his previously shaggy look with something a bit tighter to the dome.

"So after all I did all my hippy s—, at some point I’m gonna cut this. It just finally came to be last Friday." While he wasn't wearing a Knicks jersey, the site of Rodgers at MSG certainly has to be a bit strange for those who grew accustomed to seeing him at the Bradley Center and later Fiserv Forum for Milwaukee Bucks games. His celebrity girlfriends at the time — actress Olivia Munn and race car driver Danica Patrick — had also joined him in Milwaukee over the years.

In the three-hour-long podcast interview, which requires paid access, Rodgers compared the AIDS epidemic with the COVID-19 pandemic, centering Fauci as the mastermind orchestrating the U.S. government’s response to both public health crises. The video clip is from a Feb. 23 episode of the "Look Into It" podcast hosted by martial arts instructor and self-described conspiracy theorist Eddie Bravo. The interview resurfaced April 16 when a clip from it was shared on X and viewed more than 13 million times. The perpetually controversial quarterback is making headlines, after a clip of him suggesting the HIV/AIDS crisis was purposely created by the United States government went viral on social media. After 18 seasons with the Green Bay Packers – 15 as the team's starting quarterback – Aaron Rodgers has been traded to the New York Jets.

Rodgers and his Packers don't have much time to focus on unnecessary things, though, especially after their poor performance in Week 1 against the Minnesota Vikings. They'll be facing the Chicago Bears next in Week 2, and they'll definitely hope to get to the win column then. To be fair to Aaron Rodgers, his hair doesn't look that bad during the ceremony, and a lot of people have actually been used to it. We now have the answers to the questions Packers fans have been wondering since they saw Aaron Rodgers return to Green Bay for the 2021 season.