ESPN’s Ryan Clark Fires Back at Aaron Rodgers, Accuses Him of Making Vaccine Comment to Avoid ‘The Stink of Your Film’

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ESPN analyst Ryan Clark on Wednesday responded to Aaron Rodgers shading him on The Pat McAfee Show and bringing up his vaccination status.

The two men have been involved in a back-and-forth over the last week since Rodgers criticized ESPN’s on-air talent. After Clark initially responded by calling Rodgers a hypocrite and a fraud, Rodgers — without saying Clark’s name — said on The Pat McAfee Show that critics of his should first disclose their vaccination status so that the criticism can be framed appropriately. Rodgers then reiterated his well-documented vaccine skepticism by claiming that those who took the Covid-19 vaccine were “captured” by a “propaganda psyop.”

On Wednesday, Clark posted a four-and-a-half-minute video on social media addressing Rodgers’s comments, saying:

Now, let me be clear because I know you want us to list these things. My name is Ryan Clark. Played 13 years in the NFL. Been to two Super Bowls. I have as many rings as you do. I was the captain of two separate football teams. I’m also an Emmy winner. I’m also the co-host, owner, and partner of an Emmy-nominated podcast called The Pivot. Now, I know something else you were very interested in was my vaccination status; and yes, I’m vaxed because I have no spleen, I have no gallbladder because of playing in Denver — and being willing to go back, honestly, and play again — because I’ve been in those locker rooms; and I’ve talked to people that have been in the locker rooms with you. I have the stories. I have all the things that they said that informed my opinion of who you are.

And as far as your vaccination status — so you can stop trying to trick people into thinking that we wanna talk about that above the stink of your film — I’ve never heard it one more time after your incident; and the only reason we spoke about it then was because based on your vaccination status, it was going to determine how long you were out. And also, people didn’t care that you weren’t vaccinated. They cared that you were slimy about it; they cared that you were deceitful about it; and they cared that you had this air of arrogance when answering the questions about it. And you’ve kinda only been the only person that’s talked about it since.”

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