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Pat McAfee lets Aaron Rodgers spout more garbage on today's showAfter a week of controversy, New York Jets signal-caller Aaron Rodgers was welcomed back to The Pat McAfee Show with applause and a standing ovation from its host. (To be fair, McAfee is always standing, though at least he’s wearing sleeves today.) ...

Aaron Rodgers, who played 4 snaps, somehow voted team's Most Inspirational PlayerNew York Jets players voted to give the team’s Most Inspirational Player Award — named after Dennis Byrd, the defensive end who was paralyzed during a 1992 game and had to relearn how to walk — to Aaron Rodgers, the guy who tore his Achilles four snaps into Gang Green’s opener and vowed to return bu...

Stephen A. Smith weighs in on Pat McAfee and, as usual, gets it wrongLast time I checked, Stephen A. Smith, a man who epitomizes the “embrace really loud debate” and who, just this week, had a man sniffing a female colleague’s shoe on his show, has decided to speak for journalism....

It’s time for ESPN to put an end to Pat McAfee’s Aaron Rodgers disaster

There was a time in journalism when allowing people to spew false information in a public forum was frowned upon. That was before the ghouls at FOX News realized that there was a lot of money in telling people what they want to hear — truth be damned — first as wild speculation about where former Pr...

IDIOT OF THE YEAR: It's the final countdown (Nos. 10-1)

Here they are: The biggest dummies of 2023. Most of them are starting to take up permanent residence here. ...

IDIOT OF THE MONTH: Defending Trevor Bauer is never a good look

Hello there, esteemed reader, and welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH, the world-renowned series in which we mostly just make fun of Aaron Rodgers every few weeks. (Hi, Tom Laforgia!)...

Don’t let Aaron Rodgers convince you not to use sunscreen

Not content to have spread misinformation about the COVID vaccine, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the therapeutic effects of the sounds of dolphin sex, and “the softening” of society, Rodgers, a man who took courses in “American Studies” at Cal Berkeley, where he did not graduate with a degree in anything relat...

ESPN cuts pay during COVID, inks Pat McAfee for $85M, vax jokes with Aaron Rodgers

Dancing with the devil is a personal choice. But when the heat from that tango singes others, it becomes a problem. Some ESPN employees have to be burning mad over how they lost money due to pay cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic, all for the worldwide leader to spend almost $100 million for Pat McAf...