Last week, Aaron Rodgers tried to mock Travis Kelce during an interview. Rodgers is sitting out this season because he tore his Achilles in the first game with the Jets, but he still has some kind of contract to do interviews and give (literal) Monday-morning quarterbacking. During the pandemic, Aaron turned into this really patronizing, anti-vaxx conspiracist douche, and that’s how he tried to mock Travis. He called Travis “Mr. Pfizer,” you see, because Travis Kelce got paid to do a Pfizer commercial, encouraging people to get their Covid booster shots and flu shots. Considering the number of high-profile athletes saying and doing dumb sh-t about vaccinations, Travis Kelce deserves all the credit for being refreshingly pro-science, pro-medicine and pro-vaccination. Not only that, but Travis had the sexiest response when asked about Aaron’s dumbf–k nickname:
“Mr. Pfizer” responds to Aaron Rodgers: pic.twitter.com/N3Ptfea9oH
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 6, 2023
In case you can’t see it, he was asked about “Mr. Pfizer” and he chuckles and says “I thought it was pretty good. With the ‘stache, I look like someone named Mr. Pfizer. Who knew I’d get into vax wars with Aaron Rodgers, man? Mr. Pfizer against the Johnson & Johnson family over there…I got it because keeping myself safe, my family safe, the people in this building. I stand by it 1,000%. Fully comfortable with him calling me Mr. Pfizer.”
It’s hot. It’s giving Hot Nerd With A Banging Body. It’s giving Science Is Sexy. The way he laughs, the way he’s standing there in a sleeveless top with his guns out, the way he says “the Johnson & Johnson family” as a reminder that Aaron Rodgers is playing for a team owned by a family which is heavily invested in medicine and medical supplies. It’s just perfect. I totally get why women are into him.
Meanwhile, Travis’s birthday was last week, and there was some speculation that Taylor might have flown to Kansas City to see him. But people were tracking his movements, and he spent his birthday in Kansas City, in practice with his team, then hanging out with some friends for lunch, then he was seen picking up “a pack of Dutch Masters cigars at a convenience store.” Dude spent his birthday working, chilling in a parking lot with friends and buying some birthday cigars. That’s kind of sexy too – a guy who is comfortable in his own skin, who doesn’t need to be in a strip club or getting blitzed on his birthday.
PS… Taylor didn’t go to last night’s Chiefs game. I bet that both Travis and Taylor decided that she shouldn’t go because the NFL was doing way too much.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- United States President Joe Biden is presented a jersey from Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Tight End Travis Kelce as he welcomes the Kansas City Chiefs to celebrate their victory in Super Bowl LVII on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Featuring: President Joe Biden, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 05 Jun 2023 Credit: Yuri Gripas/POOL via CNP/startraksphoto.com
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- Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’ at TUDUM Theater Featuring: Travis Kelce Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 11 Jul 2023 Credit: Faye’s Vision/Cover Images
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- Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’ at TUDUM Theater Featuring: Travis Kelce Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 11 Jul 2023 Credit: Faye’s Vision/Cover Images
@kaiser and my fellow CBers, you know he wasn’t smoking “birthday cigars,” right? Cuz no one actually smokes Dutches in their cigar form. The brand was mentioned for a reason.
LOL! Exactly. Those are for blunts. If Travis wanted actual cigars he could get better ones.
Love his response to the Mr Pfizer thing! Rogers is such an idiot.
@bee(not that bee) I’m happy he isn’t an anti vax idiot bc I gotta share a planet with him, but to me he’s just saying basics.
I love how he straight out says ”vax wars” and doesn’t pussyfoot around the issue. Rogers is such a tool.
I agree with everyone calling AR an absolute idiot but the bar is set in hell when all you need is for someone not to be the dumbest mfer in the room to get your panties wet.
Those who follow football or know anything else about him, please give me more to go on.
I don’t think there’s anything more. If you follow football, he’s considered one of the greatest ever at his position of tight end. He has a charity for underprivileged kids and has been nominated for an NFL humanitarian award. He seems a nice guy and a good football player. If that doesn’t get your panties wet, then there are plenty of others in the world.
@eurydice how is that not more?! That’s so much more and yes, that stuff I call sexy! I don’t care about his abilities as a tight end (idk what that is and that’s a me thing) but using that to improve the world just a bit is cool.
I guess, I mean more than what is generally known about the guy. There are actually quite a few football players who have foundations and do community work, so Travis isn’t unusual in that way, but he is unusual for his abilities as a football player.
He knelt in 2017 in solidarity with Black teammates. After the Bud Light brouhaha over Dylan Mulvaney, he made a Bud Light commercial.
He’s solid. And I say this as an Eagles fan who believes his brother Jason is the superior Kelce. Both brothers have a great sense of humor, which to me is the sexiest characteristic of all.
not an Eagles fan, but I also believe Jason to be the hotter Kelce.
On one of the more current podcasts, Jason was repping NPR merch.
In this day and age of ‘I did my own research’, or ‘school of life’ in bios – and people like AR saying more stupid stuff than anything else, I quietly despair* and ask myself how we could have come this far, only for people to be negating scientific principles and progress.
So it’s so good to see someone as famous, and seemingly uncontroversial, as Travis declaring himself pro-science, even if he gets paid handsomely for this vax ad. Good on him to make fun of AR, while reminding him who is paying AR’s salary.
* I work in bio-medical research.
@Nanea – Hard to answer the question about why people are “negating scientific principles and progress” though, ironically, I think part of the problem is how effective modern vaccines (and antibiotics) have been, at least in places like the US. Things like the Spanish flu outbreak are 100 years in the past; I think the last major outbreak of a great scourge like diphtheria goes back almost that far. People in their 60’s but especially 70’s and up might remember sometimes seeing people with polio, and into the 1970’s measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox were still common in childhood. But for people younger than that, not so much. These days, by the time children are 2 or 3 they’ll have received vaccinations to prevent all of these, and you wonder if some of the people who dismiss the Covid vaccines even realize what they received as young children.
Can’t remember what it is but believe there’s a phrase to describe when people don’t believe something is possible because they’ve never experienced it. That’s my theory – we’ve been so effective at preventing (and treating) what used to be common diseases that the fact that 1) a disease can exist on a global level; and 2) that it has potential to cause serious harm or death is no longer part of the collective consciousness.
I agree with all of this and will add….the ahole who lied and said vaccines cause autism and the GOP politicizing covid and the vaccines also contributed to the current anti-vax mentality.
Autism has always existed but historically was under diagnosed. When it was finally formally recognized and autistic people were finally being properly diagnosed that a-hole (I don’t remember his name) lied and said autism was sudden and new and attributed it to vaccines (which actually have a long history of safety and efficacy). People who have children who are diagnosed with any type of uncommon disorder often are desperate for answers as to “why” and science often does not have any. Scammers like the a-hole make up lies and grift off of desperate parents.
The “vaccines cause autism” scare, which hit mainstream when Jenny “Arrogance and Ignorance Personified” McCarty pushed it, was fairly recent (the past 20 years). The GOP has long been against anything that would make Americans healthier and they deliberately downplayed covid because 1. it would make trump look bad if there was a pandemic and 2. they wanted to use covid as a way of discrediting the Democratic party (wtaf?).
Add all that up and it’s really no surprise that there are ignorant people who are anti-mask and anti-vaccine. Of course, their anti-science rhetoric is only applicable to vaccines. Those same a-holes have no problem getting medical care for any other issue. The cognitive dissonance is mind numbing.
Anyhoo, good for Travis for being willing to promote flu and covid vaccines and especially for snarking on Qaaron.
I’d never heard of him before he got with Taylor and when I initially saw pics, I was like *shoulder shrug*. but I’ve since watched his SNL episode, his interview with Jimmy Fallon where he sings Fight for your Right to Party, and clips from the podcast with his brother, and he is SO charismatic. He seems so confident and comfortable in his own skin, it’s very sexy.
And I LOVE how he quietly schooled AR here. The little jab about Johnson & Johnson is *chef’s kiss*
Same. I haven’t watched the SNL episode yet, but when this media blitz first began I was like “eh, don’t see the appeal, and now I’m like “dayum.”
@bettyrose, just look up the SNL commercial The NFL gives back from 3/4/23. You’ll get it
HA! Niiice. It’s on Youtube, folks! Thanks, @Cattykeen
Yeah, so far, I’m crushing 😂
Agree with this. I don’t follow football. I don’t know anything about this guy. I don’t find him physically attractive.
But I will say his cool confidence is *very* sexy. I get it now why Taylor’s into him.
What first attracted me to him was his unabashed enthusiasm, humor and good nature. Spontaneous dancing and singing, silly jokes and easy camaraderie with his teammates is sexy in my book. As I’ve commented before I also like his approach to fashion, doesn’t always work but mostly yes, not afraid to wear what he likes. The fact that he’s besties with Mahomie and family is bonus points. His response to Rodgers is so great.
Shall we roll the footage of Aaron Rodgers being interviewed on the sidelines while he was obviously playing high on painkillers? What a strange little man to call Kelce names.
Haha, abso-freaking-lutely. Out this hypocrite six ways from Sunday.
I’d vaguely heard of him but he didn’t show up on my radar until he talked about the friendship bracelet he wanted to give Taylor at her show. And now, the more I hear and see of him, the more I’m like “shoot Taylor pls don’t mess this up.”
I know some people have been like mmmyeah CTE/football meat head, but I think the way he deals with the press shows a lot of mental agility and professionalism, and I am impressed. I admire people who can think quickly on their feet like that. Part of it is probably media training but there are also plenty of athletes who aren’t good at it… like Aaron Rodgers, for example. Anyway, I’m all aboard the Kelce train. Been watching his SNL clips and the American Girl doll one slayed me.
I guess it’s personal preference but I can’t with that moustache. If you see him in commercials he has a very short but full beard and that to me is MUCH sexier. A standalone stache (again, to me) is corny and gross looking. My husband hypothesizes that he shaved the beard part and went to the solo stache around the same time he started dating TS so maybe it’s her preference and that makes me question her taste in general.
Insta is serving me non stop clips of him and his brothers podcast, and his brother and his sister in law told him if anyone dates him with that terrible mustache, they must really like him 😂.
He knows it’s terrible but likes it for some reason? My brother has done this before as well, I think it does mean he’s got a sense of humor 😂.
The confidence to make counter points about Rogers and then say he’s comfortable with it with no chip on his shoulder or macho bs is so refreshing. He didn’t take shots at Roger’s playing or injury or any of the personal things he could’ve, on the spot, which means that’s his first instinct.
He’s not my usual type, but that 70’s Burt Reynolds ‘stache works for him 100%. It makes him look like the chill friend-with-benefits you call whenever you’re single and in his city who always keeps it light and low-key (and makes it fun every time).
I really didn’t know much about Travis before Taylor. But I’m really liking him 😊.