{"id":149445,"date":"2023-10-10T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=149445"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:31:55","slug":"jets-rodgers-challenge-chiefs-kelce-pfizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/10\/10\/jets-rodgers-challenge-chiefs-kelce-pfizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets&#8217; Aaron Rodgers Issues Challenge to Chiefs&#8217; Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce tried to take the high road, accepting the monicker of \u201cMr. Pfizer\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/10\/03\/jets-rodgers-shot-chiefs-kelce-pfizer\/\" target=\"_self\">bestowed upon him<\/a> by New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers, however, is not as ready to move on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Pfizer said he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1710363082927550731\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">didn\u2019t think he\u2019d be in a vax war<\/a> with me,\u201d Rodgers said on the \u201cPat McAfee Show\u201d on October 10. \u201cThis ain\u2019t a war, homie. This is just a conversation. But if you want to have some sort of duel, debate, have me on the podcast. Come on the [Pat McAfee] Show, let us have a conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Jets&#8217; Aaron Rodgers to Chiefs&#8217; Travis Kelce: &#8216;This Ain&#8217;t a War, Homie&#8217;<\/h2>\n<h3>Jets\u2019 Aaron Rodgers Escalates \u2018Vax War\u2019 With Chiefs\u2019 Travis Kelce<\/h3>\n<p>Kelce did, in fact, say he did not foresee this \u201cwar\u201d with Rodgers. That was after he was spotted conversing ahead of the Chiefs\u2019 and Jets\u2019 Week 4 tilt on Sunday Night Football. Rodgers chose to keep that conversion private.<\/p>\n<p>His focus on PMS was on their next conversation, though. And he offered a couple of ideas for how they could do it.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested they hold the debate with a nod to a popular movie series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s do it like in John Wick 4,\u201d Rodgers said. \u201cSo we both have a second, we both have somebody to help us out. I\u2019m gonna take my man, RFK Jr., who just came out as an independent. And he can have Tony Fauci or some other Pharmacrat, and we can have a conversation about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Mr. Pfizer said he didn&#39;t think he&#39;d be in a vax war with me.. this isn&#39;t a war this is just conversation..<\/p>\n<p>Come on the show and we&#39;ll have a conversation&quot; ~ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronRodgers12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AaronRodgers12<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PMSLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kv85yjaqRZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Kv85yjaqRZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1711804017527976445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Anthony Fauci have been two of the most polarizing figures in ongoing debates over COVID-19 and the pharmaceutical industry at large. Rodgers has also been at the center of his own bit of vaccine-related controversy.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to falsely claiming to have taken the vaccine, he has also continued to blame a toe injury on the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce\u2019s reasoning behind doing the ad that first drew Rodgers\u2019 comments was not political.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I\u2019ve always been, you know \u2014 once I got the vaccine, I mean \u2014 I got it before of keeping myself safe, keeping my family safe, the people in this building,\u201d Kelce said, per Mike Florio of NBC Sports on October 6. \u201cSo, yeah, I stand by it. 1000 percent. And fully comfortable with him calling me Mr. Pfizer.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Travis Kelce Wished Aaron Rodgers Well<\/h3>\n<p>This comes after Kelce <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/10\/04\/chiefs-kelce-conversation-jets-rodgers-mahomes\/\" target=\"_self\">revealed their pre-game conversation<\/a> was mostly well-wishes to the injured Jets star. Rodgers suffered a torn Achilles just four snaps into the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving Aaron there was gonna be that much more entertaining for somebody that\u2019s a fan of the game like I am,\u201d Kelce said on the \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast on October 4. \u2026 So I just told him we were all hurting for him, and, hopefully, he gets healthy quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The injury is typically season-ending.<\/p>\n<p>But Kelce also gave his belief that Rodgers could push to come back this season if the Jets are able to make a run to the postseason. Rodgers successfully underwent a relatively new procedure called an Achilles \u201cspeed bridge,\u201d per Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero of NFL Network on September 16.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Danielle Parhizkaran\/USA TODAY NETWORK<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injured New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers issued a non-football challenge to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":149448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[32018,7811,339],"class_list":["post-149445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiefs","category-jets","tag-aaron-rodger","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-travis-kelce"],"modified_by":"Josh Buckhalter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}