Aaron Rodgers’ MVP play for the Inexperienced Bay 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 spite of everything, Rodgers mentioned he grew out his hair final 12 months partially for his John Wick Halloween costume, it was a part of a golf wager 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 sport towards the Vikings and Rodgers was seen sporting a brand new recent reduce it was naturally going to get individuals’s consideration. Some on-line have 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 spite of everything this time, what made Rodgers determine to eliminate 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 informed McAfee that after the awards present, wherein he accepted his fourth MVP, when he noticed a photograph of himself he mentioned “Whoo, it is perhaps time.”
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At that ceremony, Rodgers sported a golden brown corduroy swimsuit together with his hair slicked again.
He joked about his new hair model on the McAfee present.
He mentioned he knew that former Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk, who serves as McAfee’s co-host, has “rocked the same hair model.”
Rodgers mentioned after the NFL Honors he did “all my hippy stuff” earlier than deciding to in the end change up the hair.
Aaron 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 latest 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 not too long ago 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 not too long ago informed Peter King on his podcast that he went on one other ayahuasca retreat earlier than this season. Rodgers has mentioned 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 unlawful in the USA.
Rodgers mentioned on Tuesday his offseason experiences have made “for some attention-grabbing cafeteria conversations.”
“It’s been attention-grabbing 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 mentioned. “Folks from my previous acquaintances, mates, shut mates who didn’t perceive and needed to study extra about it after which teammates. A lot of teammates pulled me apart and needed to study it.”
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