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Sauce Gardner jokes about report Aaron Rodgers could be VP candidate for RFK Jr.

Originally posted on 5 GOATs | By Suzanne Halliburton | Last updated 3/13/24

So maybe there is something to this Aaron Rodgers as vice president story that broke earlier this week. In hindsight, Jets teammate Sauce Gardner figures its why his quarterback stopped answering his texts.

Cause Rodgers not only is prepping for his return to the NFL, he also must be going over his policy positions since he could be the VP on the third-party ticket with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The New York Times broke the story, Tuesday, mentioning that RFK has contacted a host of folks about being his VP in his long shot campaign for the highest office in the country. Aaron Rodgers and Jesse “the Body” Ventura, the former wrestler and governor of Minnesota, have shown interest.

After the story broke, Gardner had some fun with it. Seriously, what else can you do when your quarterback goes for the second highest job in the land?

Gardner, the Jets cornerback, shared on X “Ohhhh, Aaron bouta become the VP.. That’s why he ain’t been answering my text messages.” And he punctuated it all with a thinking face emoji.

Ohhhh, Aaron bouta become the VP.. That’s why he ain’t been answering my text messages
— SAUCE GARDNER (@iamSauceGardner) March 13, 2024

Aaron Rodgers usually pulls something unusual this time of the offseason. A year ago, he was emerging from a darkness retreat. He wanted to contemplate the future of his NFL career, so he paid some serious money to stay in a tiny, partially underground cottage located in a snow covered sliver of remote Oregon.

He also started posting photos of his new BFF RFK Jr last summer, when he still was living in California. The two share the same anti-vax views and dislike for Dr. Anthony Fauci.

RFK Jr told the Times that he and Aaron Rodgers have talked “pretty continuously” during the past month. The Times noted that Kennedy is well known for embracing anti vaxx and other government consracies. Then the media outlet described Rodgers as someone who “has increasingly embraced the role of celebrity provocateur and contrarian for his stances on vaccines, public health and the coronavirus pandemic.“

Former football players, or athletes in general, are not that unusual in politics. Former Heisman winner Herschel Walker was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia last year. And Colin Allred, who played at Baylor then the Tennessee Titans, won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate out of Texas. Former LA Dodger Steve Garvey also is in a runoff for the Senate job representing California.

But Aaron Rodgers is more in the Gerald Ford category. The former president was a lineman for Michigan long before he became VP under Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

Rodgers has not had an official comment on the VP conversation. Here’s hoping he will get time to get back in touch with Sauce.

This article first appeared on 5 GOATs and was syndicated with permission.

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