Aaron Rodgers, King of the (NFC) North, Has a Very Good 'Game of Thrones' Take

Photo credit: Aaron Rodgers
Photo credit: Aaron Rodgers

From Esquire

When a series gets to be as big as Game of Thrones, everyone has a take, even after the show is over. This includes Green Bay Packers quarterback, King of the NFC North, first of his name Aaron Rodgers. The NFL superstar, who made a cameo in Episode Five of the final season, had some serious grievances to air out about the Thrones finale. After dispelling where he was and wasn't during his cameo episode (when someone asks, "So, you're the one near the belltower?" Rodgers responds, "Sure."), the QB let loose because, like a lot of fans, he wasn't particularly convinced by that King Bran the Broken move that happened in the finale.

When another off-screen reporter asks if he was pleased with how the show ended, he replied with an abrupt, "No." While Rodgers admitted that it's been a good 10 years of television watching, he knows that a decade of prime television comes with some serious responsibility. That's when the superfan goes all the way in, pulls out his metaphorical notebook, and points out the truth: "You come down to the ending and Tyrion says the person with the best story is Bran? Who by the way said three episodes ago he wasn't Bran Stark anymore?"

Aaron Rodgers, King of the (NFC) North, isn't buying this whole "who has the best story" shtick.

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In a perfectly unhinged fashion, Rodgers goes down the line and starts listing who had a better story: Jon, Dany, Arya, Sansa, Tyrion, Varys, Bron, Jaime, Cersei, and pretty much any Baratheon. Bran was way down Rodgers' list.

He went as far to theorize that not only did Bran lie about not wanting to be king, but he orchestrated the whole thing. And in a final moment, Rodgers offers speculation that with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss working on Star Wars, they might have just been a bit preoccupied. We need more Aaron Rodgers hot takes. All hail Aaron Rodgers, first of his name, King of Winterfell Wisconsin.

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