New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers has offered to debate Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce over COVID-19 vaccinations after a recent comment Kelce made about Rodgers.
Rodgers had recently given Kelce the nickname “Mr. Pfizer,” to which Kelce had laughed it off and stated he did not intend to get “into the vax wars” with Rodgers. The New York Jets player clarified that it was not a war but a “conversation.”
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“But if you want to have some sort of duel, debate, have me on the podcast, come on the show, let’s have a conversation,” Rodgers said on The Pat McAfee Show.
Rodgers also suggested having at least two other people join the potential debate between him and Kelce. Rodgers suggested he would get Robert Kennedy Jr., a known vaccine critic and 2024 presidential candidate, while Kelce could get Dr. Anthony Fauci “or some other pharmacrat.”
The Mr. Pfizer nickname ties into a recent commercial for the Pfizer vaccine Kelce had appeared in, in which viewers were encouraged to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine while receiving a flu shot. When asked about the nickname Rodgers had given him, Kelce joked that he thought it was “pretty good” and that he looks “like a guy called ‘Mr. Pfizer.'”
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Kelce was referring to Rodgers’s employment by Woody Johnson, an heir of Johnson & Johnson, another pharmaceutical company. However, Rodgers himself is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
The New York Jets player caused controversy in 2021 when he initially claimed in an interview that he was “immunized” from COVID-19, leading some to believe he had received a vaccination. However, he later admitted he had not taken the shot.
