Since active athletes have begun running their own podcasts and YT channels an entire useless genre of sportswriting has emerged; cribbing 15 seconds of dialogue into an entire-ass article for clix. I’m happy for the guy, being one of the most electric players on my hometown team and a genuinely kind (and extremely generous) guy, and he and Taylor seem to make each other haply, so I have a very hard time understanding the second evolution of this into pop-sports paparazzi-enabled “writing”. It’s only slightly less disgusting than the constant reminder that half of the people watching the sport have had their experience corrupted by legalized gambling being shoved down everyone’s throat.
For context, Aaron Rodgers, in spite of his deeply held convictions (
), plays for the NY Jets, a team owned by Robert “Woody” Johnson, heir of pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson.
