Sauce Gardner couldn’t assist however have a little bit enjoyable with the largest story of the day in New York sports activities.
The Jets cornerback turned the primary present member of the group to touch upon a Tuesday report that unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had quarterback Aaron Rodgers atop his checklist of most well-liked operating mates.
The information got here as a shock to simply about everybody when the New York Occasions first reported it Tuesday afternoon — a rep for Kennedy’s marketing campaign confirmed to The Publish that the candidate was “contemplating Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura as operating mates.”
“Ohhhh, Aaron bouta turn into the VP.. That’s why he ain’t been answering my textual content messages,” Gardner wrote on X late Tuesday night time together with a pondering face emoji.
The Jets haven’t publicly commented on the report about Rodgers and the longer term Corridor of Famer has not made any public statements both.
The Occasions reported Kennedy stated he had spoken to Rodgers “fairly repeatedly” for the previous month in regards to the vp nomination.
A website title for kennedyrodgers.com was registered on GoDaddy final week, the outlet additionally reported.
Rodgers and Kennedy’s pondering aligns in a number of areas together with public heath coverage and vaccines.
Each males have been staunch critics of the COVID-19 vaccine and the Jets quarterback had endorsed Kennedy as early as final April when pushing the hashtag “Kennedy2024” on social media.
The wild flip of occasions induced shock across the sporting world, with former Jet Damien Woody posting on X, “Man we’re an unserious nation.”
WFAN host Shaun Morash known as it the “most Jets story of all time” and recommended that “If he’s ‘welcoming overtures,’ even when it’s at 5 %, he’s not all-in on quarterbacking the Jets.”
Rodgers solely performed 4 snaps in his first season with the Jets, tearing his Achilles within the group’s opener towards the Payments.
The Jets are relying on Rodgers returning below middle this season because the group tries to makes good on its Tremendous Bowl hopes.
Kennedy is anticipated to call a operating mate within the coming weeks.
