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'Exceeded My Expectations’: Aaron Rodgers Makes Bizarre Comparison Between Controversial Egypt Trip And THIS Golf Event
Jets QB Aaron Rodgers opens up on his trip to Egypt to a surreal golfing event he attended once amid all the criticism he is getting for missing Packers minicamp.
Neither the NFL world nor Aaron Rodgers himself are over his Egypt escape. The reasons for both, however, are polarizing. When A-Rod missed out on the mandatory Jets’ minicamp, fans assumed he was lavishing on an ayahuasca retreat, since he had been quite vocal about his appreciation of psychedelics in the last few months. Proving all of them wrong in an instant, Rodgers opened up on where he actually was: in Egypt. Not the all-brown picture, with pyramids and ancient monoliths as the backdrop that pops up in our mind. Rather, Rodgers had an interesting comparison to make, one that several fans thought was bizarre, to clarify what he truly felt like on this vacation.
Augusta National, a state-of-the-art private golf club in Georgia, is often referred to as one of the finest in the world. The National, as it is also called, hosts a golf tournament each year, one that Rodgers attended while missing his mandatory team minicamp. Now, how is it connected to his Egypt trip, you may ask?
You see, on Tuesday Rodgers sat down with former Jets’ QB Boomer Esiason and his co-host Gregg Giannotti, the hosts of WFAN's ‘Boomer & Gio Show’. There, along with talking about several things, including his future plans post-retirement, A-Rod made a comparison between Egypt and Augusta. “It was one of the few places in life where it kind of exceeded expectations, to be honest," Rodgers said. "The only other place that was kind of like that was when I went to Augusta [National]."
Fans thought Rod was again indulging in his psychedelics as he just called an all-brown, sand-filled place something that makes him remember his trip to Augusta, a place with his spick and span with lush green grass and pink azaleas.
But if we just put a flip on our perspectives for a second, ignoring the blaring difference between the appearances of the two places, and think about the experience Rodgers was talking about for a second, it would all make much more sense. As Golf Digest’s Christopher Powers puts it, “Everyone who goes to Augusta National, myself included (NBD), says the exact same thing.”
So, it was more about the overwhelming feeling that Rodgers was referring to when comparing the lush green Augusta National and Egypt. It does not matter that Rodgers had to pay $50,000 plus a fine to the Jets for missing their minicamp. But who’s to blame? A-Rod openly confessed that he “saw it coming.”
In his defense, Rodgers had informed head coach Saleh and his teammates prior to the trip, and per him, they were quite okay with it. “I think they understood it was more of an issue outside of the building than it was inside the building,” Rodgers confessed, indirectly addressing and dismissing all the criticism getting hurled at him.
Rodgers even confessed that the real reason he had to miss the camp was because of the introduction of a new schedule. “I originally scheduled it based on the previous year’s [practice] schedule," he said. "[It] had us out, I believe, by the 9th or 10th. So once I saw the [new] schedule, I was trying to move some things around. It just didn’t happen.”
However, after the break he got from his retreat, fans expect Rodgers to come back this season in full form, making waves as the Jets QB.
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