aaron rodgers was designed in a lab to strike the optimal balance between of “piece of shit teammate everybody on the team violently hates” and “precisely too good to ever say anything about being a piece of shit teammate”
have always said the commercials where he’s best friends with his insurance agent & constantly a huge passive aggressive dick to the agent but the agent takes the abuse because hey it’s aaron rodgers I need this gig are not in fact a joke, this is a perfect personality profile
like I can easily imagine it’s a random saturday in june and aaron rodgers wakes up with nothing to do and calls his insurance agent to make him go golfing and clown on him the entire time because nobody else will deal with his shit off the football field
I mean here’s a guy who can do anything in his spare time, he can pick his next career, and what it turns out he wants is to host the official game show of sitting by yourself yelling answers at the tv in the form of a question
aaron rodgers: great at football, real fuckin weirdo
oh! sidebar re: insurance commercials. totally amazing how whatever agency writes these things settled on a theme of “douchebag professional athlete is a complete pretentious dick to our employee and that’s cool, our employees just eat shit all day” has really run hog wild
they got mahomes, who seems like a fairly normal dude, to buy into the treatment. it’s bizarre! it makes no sense at all with him, completely atonal. but dammit if you want an insurance agency where you can abuse the agents because you’re big time important, like a good neighbor
now I’d have thought these dudes have sports agents whose job it is to point out “hey man I know it sorta seems like a self deprecating funny at surface level but this makes you look like a real freak, your ego is the joke selling the insurance, get a rewrite” but apparently not?
all this said I bet they’re highly effective ads! people want to think they’re important and the insurance company is telling them “hey you can pick up the phone and abuse us, we won’t care, that’s what we are here for daddy”. very sneaky smart! but if you’re mahomes’ agent? eesh
here’s patrick mahomes, making $45M a year, working a gig at a shoe store to save 20 bucks on a pair of sneakers, getting angry at his insurance agent, who makes like $45K a year, for also helping someone else save like 89 bucks a year on insurance. just a truly amazing conceit
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don’t know exactly who runs this account but, alongside the rest of the elections board, they’re folks of high integrity doing jobs they could easily quit & turn over to crooked goons. they will face abuse from the goons for doing their job well - they deserve support and thanks
in a perfect world you shouldn’t have to say thanks for doing your job, but these people in these roles are one of the final remaining firewalls between democracy & bloody fascism. it’s important they’re not left bobbing on the ocean alone
sometimes all people need to keep going is for others to recognize they’re doing the right thing when they don’t have to and say hey we see it thank you
the fascination with kid-gloving trump supporters like they’re some sort of alien species journalists are on safari to see continues and meanwhile nobody wants to ask biden voters about their perspectives because it’s boring tv
I mean in a way it’s a brilliant hack of traditional media’s total compulsion to both sides any dynamic they encounter. “we get to behave as total deranged morons and they can’t say anything because they need us to be their counterpoint”
this clip is pure gold, they even admit they’re embarrassed to say what sort of shit they’re into. they are totally aware it’s berserk and contemptible. they’re ashamed to be honest. but oh isn’t it quaint they’re in a train and so polite this would make a charming postcard
you know, no one asked, but someone’s gotta say something about how these amazon football “stats” are the analytics equivalent of reading chicken bones in a cauldron and making people’s football brains even stupider. as long as I’m ranting win percentage is absolute garbage
please stop writing pointless formulas just because you have bits of data and the ability to stick them in equations and give them ecstasy and make them dance to techno. they communicate nothing of use. it is an affront to actual analytics.
if you get football you should absolutely do a one-time experiment and carve time out to watch a game side-by-side with the win percentage every play of the game. it’s objectively hilarious.