Aaron Rodgers finished on Pat McAfee Show — at least for now — after Jimmy Kimmel feud

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If you want to hear more of Aaron Rodgers’ ramblings about a Jeffrey Epstein list or his theories about COVID, you’re going to have to run into him on an Ayahuasca retreat.

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That’s because the future hall-of-fame quarterback won’t be appearing on the Pat McAfee Show — at least for the rest of the season.

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McAfee broke the news to his viewers on Wednesday’s show.

“So Aaron Rodgers Tuesday Season Four, is done,” McAfee said. “There could be a lot of people that are happy with that. Myself included, to be honest with you. The way it ended, it got real loud.”

Rodgers’ weekly appearances on the popular sports talk show, broadcast on TSN in Canada and YouTube, had taken on a life of their own in recent weeks as the Jets quarterback found himself in a feud with Jimmy Kimmel after seeming to accuse the late-night talk show of being worried about the release of a list of Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid clients and associates.

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If that sounds like it has nothing to do with sports, it doesn’t, but Rodgers’ appearance had always been eclectic at best, and off-the-deep-end at worst.

CNN reports that the decision to end Rodgers’ weekly appearances (for now, at least) had nothing to do with the end of the NFL season and everything to do with “his recent behaviour.”

On what would be his final appearance of the season, Rodgers was asked to respond to comments Kimmel made on his late night show a day earlier. After addressing the feud for a few minutes and claiming his comment was misunderstood, the four-time NFL MVP turned back the clock and went through his greatest hits with a nearly half-hour uninterrupted rant featuring his views on COVID, vaccinations, his preference for non-mainstream treatments, Epstein lists and pedophilia.

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It was a tour-de-force of internet rabbit holes, past grievances and a fitting end to a very strange season both on the field and off the field for Rodgers.

“We are very lucky to get a chance to chat with him and learn from him. Some of his thoughts and opinions, though, do piss off a lot of people,” McAfee said of Rodgers. “I’m pumped that that is no longer going to be every single Wednesday of my life, which it has been for the last few weeks.”

There is no word whether Rodgers will return next season.

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