Here’s the audio of an MVP voter going on the record and saying he won’t vote for Aaron Rodgers because he’s “the biggest jerk in the league” and “the way he’s carried himself is inappropriate.”
Your personal feelings don’t matter.
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— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) January 5, 2022
‘Self important sports journalist uses MVP vote to take personal moral stand against Aaron Rodgers.’ Yo, Hub Arkush:
I’ve been on record for the last two months as saying that the only thing that would prevent Aaron Rodgers winning his 4th MVP this season is that some voters aren’t going to like his off the field ‘drama.’ And the above audio is precisely what I’m talking about. Noted media dinosaur, Hub Arkush, made an absolute fool out of himself on Chicago radio yesterday when he stated that he’s not going to cast an MVP vote for the best player in the league (which he admits!) because he doesn’t like him personally.
Kick ROCKS, dude. The MVP is an on-the-field award. Who is the best player in the league in a given season. What player can a team least afford to lose. What player would be drafted #1 overall in a single season draft. The answer to all of those statements for the 2021 season is Aaron Rodgers. Arkush clearly doesn’t like Rodgers as a person, and honestly, I know a lot of Packer fans that probably agree with some of his takes about Rodgers off of the field. But that shouldn’t factor into MVP voting. This isn’t the Walter Payton ‘Man of the Year’ award. The fact that these old-school media members, who take themselves WAY too seriously, still get MVP votes or Hall of Fame votes is a travesty.
And the craziest part of that interview isn’t even the immunization/vaccine take, which you knew Rodgers would take a hit on. It’s that Arkush admits that he had already decided to not vote for Rodgers before the season began because of what happened during the offseason. That’s NUTS. To eliminate a potential MVP before a regular season snap is even taken because of how the Packer offseason was conducted makes Arkush the Mayor of Bananaland.
I have to at least concede this to Arkush: He gave me and the rest of the peons blogging on the internet something to talk about today. So I suppose I need to thank him for that.
PS: Hub was probably TWITCHING after this moment this season:
