ESPN Super Bowl Winner Rips Aaron Rodgers' Steelers Selfishness
ESPN Super Bowl Winner Rips Aaron Rodgers' Steelers Selfishness originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to be a distraction and doesn't want to be in the news and doesn't want people to look at him ...
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And he said so during a Tuesday appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show" on ESPN on national TV as part of the $1 million contract that pays him to ...
Be looked at.
Be in the news.
And maybe to be a distraction.
Rodgers, 41, said he is "pretty sure" that he will retire following the 2025 season; that's his call to make and it's his call as to when to decide to announce it.
But as he went on to trash the media and the fans who hunger for the very information he was offering - and the media/fan spotlight that had created a reported net worth for him of $220 million - he jumped offsides, in the view of another ESPN host.
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During Wednesday's edition of the ESPN Radio "Unsportsmanlike" program, former NFL defensive lineman and Super Bowl champion Chris Canty took a poke at Rodgers regarding the much-watched "McAfee Show" segment.
"It is the definition of self-serving with the timing of Aaron Rodgers doing this," Canty said (h/t Steelers Depot). "Everything we heard him say on the 'McAfee Show' had nothing to do with helping the Pittsburgh Steelers compete for a championship. It all had to do with him saying he wants to come back for the love of the game."
Among Rodgers' rants?
"The entitlement to information about my private life is so (expletive) ridiculous and embarrassing,"Rodgers said. "Like, hey, do what you've got to do, but try and leave me out of a conversation, sports world, for a month. Try and just leave me out, my personal life, my professional life, try not to talk about me ... for the next six weeks, five weeks, whatever it is.
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"Just see if you can do that."
From the highs in Green Bay (where he won four MVPs) to the lows in New York (when he tore his Achilles in the first quarter of his first game with the Jets to last season when he recorded an empty total of 3,897 yards and 28 touchdowns on the way to a 5-12 season) to now (when he is a pivot point of the Steelers' playoff hopes) ... no, Aaron. We cannot do that.
And Chris Canty and ESPN can't do that, either.
The media does its thing. The fans do theirs. And the Steelers hope Rodgers does his ... while keeping "selfish distractions'' to a low roar.
Related: Aaron Rodgers Trashes Fans And Media As '(Expletive) Entitled, Ridiculous and Embarrassing'
This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 26, 2025, where it first appeared.
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