Travis Kelce Is “Totally Comfy” With Aaron Rodgers’s Nickname for Him

2 months ago 2 min read

Even should you’re not a devoted NFL fan, each Travis Kelce and Aaron Rodgers have sufficient identify recognition that most individuals can establish them. (Kelce’s already-high profile has gotten one thing of a lift in latest weeks.) Whereas each males are recognized for being gifted at their sport of alternative, there’s one other space the place they seemingly differ: the COVID-19 va

Kelce has change into the face of a marketing campaign urging folks to get an up to date COVID-19 shot. Rodgers has been criticized for making, let’s assume, imprecise feedback about his personal vaccination standing. (This entire scenario is an NFL-centric Goofus and Gallant comedian ready to occur.) The most recent permutation of this got here after Kelce’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs performed Rodgers’s New York Jets and the injured quarterback dubbed Kelce “Mr. Pfizer.”

Seems Kelce is okay with that. As Professional Soccer Discuss’s Mike Florio studies, Kelce addressed Rodgers’s nickname for him in feedback made to reporters. Kelce spoke of getting vaccinated for eminently comprehensible causes — “retaining myself protected, retaining my household protected, the folks on this constructing.” He additionally mentioned that he was “totally comfy with him calling me Mr. Pfizer.”

As Florio factors out, Kelce additionally threw an fascinating speaking level into the combo when responding to Rodgers’s earlier feedback. “Who knew I’d get into the vaxx battle with Aaron Rodgers, man?” Kelce mentioned. “Mr. Pfizer vs. the Johnson & Johnson household over there, man.”

Proper about right here is an efficient place to say that the New York Jets are owned by Woody Johnson — full identify: Robert Wooden Johnson IV. His great-grandfather Robert Wooden Johnson I, you’ll recall, is the founding father of Johnson & Johnson — as in, one of many corporations that’s made a COVID-19 vaccine. Kelce is best-known for his soccer abilities, however his penchant for profitable a debate shouldn’t be ignored.