Aaron Rodgers’ MVP play for the Packers and all of his off-the-field happenings (relationship with Packers administration and Shailene Woodley, COVID-19 and visitor host of “Jeopardy!” to call a number of, for instance) have generated tons of headlines the final couple of years.
However so has his hair. Sure, his hair.
In any case, Rodgers stated he grew out his hair final 12 months partly for his John Wick Halloween costume, it was a part of a golf guess with Charles Barkley and it even performed into his Nicolas Cage-inspired WWE-like coaching camp entrance this season.
So when the Packers touched down in Minnesota final Saturday for his or her Week 1 recreation towards the Vikings and Rodgers was seen sporting a brand new recent minimize it was naturally going to get individuals’s consideration. Some on-line had been evaluating it to Peaky Blinders of the Netflix crime drama present.
NFL Honors ceremony indicated to Aaron Rodgers he wanted a haircut
So in any case this time, what made Rodgers determine to do away with the lengthy locks and the person bun that he made well-known?
On Tuesday, throughout his first look of the 2022 season on “The Pat McAfee Present,” Rodgers revealed the reply to this burning query.
His look on the NFL Honors in February.
Rodgers advised McAfee that after the awards present, wherein he accepted his fourth MVP, when he noticed a photograph of himself he stated “Whoo, it is perhaps time.”
At that ceremony, Rodgers sported a golden brown corduroy go well with along with his hair slicked again.
He joked about his new hair model on the McAfee present.
He stated he knew that former Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk, who serves as McAfee’s co-host, has “rocked an identical hair model.”
Rodgers stated after the NFL Honors he did “all my hippy stuff” earlier than deciding to finally change up the hair.
Rodgers tells Pat McAfee his ayahuasca journey has led to many conversations with teammates
After first collaborating in a Panchakarma cleanse shortly after the Packers misplaced within the NFC divisional playoff spherical to the 49ers, he has revealed in current months all about his ayahuasca journey as he hit up one podcast after one other speaking with the likes of Joe Rogan, Aubrey Marcus and most lately Invoice Maher.
Throughout his look on the “Aubrey Marcus Podcast,” Rodgers defined how he first consumed ayahuasca, a plant-based psychedelic drug, throughout a visit to Peru within the 2020 offseason. He additionally lately advised Peter King on his podcast that he went on one other ayahuasca retreat earlier than this season. Rodgers has stated in these podcasts that he credit his back-to-back MVP seasons to utilizing ayahuasca and his psychological well being has improved since. Using ayahuasca is prohibited in the USA.
Rodgers stated on Tuesday his offseason experiences have made “for some fascinating cafeteria conversations.”
“It’s been fascinating to hear from so many various guys throughout the league, women and men that I do know or that I don’t know ask questions on it,” Rodgers stated. “Individuals from my previous acquaintances, pals, shut pals who didn’t perceive and needed to be taught extra about it after which teammates. A lot of teammates pulled me apart and needed to find out about it.”
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