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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