It may seem hard for many to remember, but Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers was once a top college football player. The New York gunslinger was one of California's best-ever players at any position, finishing ninth in the Heisman voting as the Golden Bears went 10–2 in 2004.
Fast forward 19 years later, and Rodgers—like many Americans—has picked up a secondary allegiance in 2023: Colorado. On Friday’s edition of The Pat McAfee Show, the future Hall of Famer endorsed Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders’s leadership in steering Colorado to a 2–0 start in his first season in Boulder, a year after a 1–11 season.
“I’m a Colorado fan. I’m a fan of what Deion’s doing,” Rodgers told McAfee to cheers from the crowd assembled in Boulder. “If there’s a lot of crows pecking and a lot of people s— talking, you must be doing something right. He shut up the team that was in the national championship [TCU] in week one, and then somebody said something in week two and he shut [Nebraska] up, and somebody said something in week three, and they're about to shut them up, too."
