One day after Hub Arkush called Aaron Rodgers “the biggest jerk in the league” and revealed that he wouldn’t vote for the Packers’ quarterback for MVP based on reasons not related to football, Rodgers got a chance to fire back.
“I think he’s a bum. I think he’s an absolute bum,” Aaron Rodgers said when asked about Hub Arkush.
The three-time MVP said that Arkush does not know him well enough to say that he is a bad guy. He got in another shot, saying that no one knew who Arkush was before he made the comments he did.
Arkush made his comments on Chicago’s 670 The Score on Tuesday. Danny Parkins asked him if MVP voters received any guidance regarding unvaccinated players and if that was part of the reason Arkush was so adamant about not voting for Rodgers.
“There’s no guidelines. We’re told to pick the guy we think is the most valuable to his team,” Arkush answered. “I don’t think it says anywhere ‘strictly on the field’.”
Arkush went on to say that he made his determination before the season began and long before any information came out about Aaron Rodgers being unvaccinated.
“I listened to the comments, Rodgers said on Wednesday. “But to say he had his mind made up in the summer time, in the offseason that I had zero chance of winning MVP, in my opinion, should exclude him from future votes.”
Rodgers added that he doesn’t believe Arkush’s problem is about anything other than Rodgers choosing homeopathic immunotherapy over the Covid-19 vaccine.
“So if he wants to go on this crusade and collude and put an extra letter on this award just for this season and make it the most valuable vaccinated player, then he should do that,” Rodgers concluded. “He’s a bum and I’m not gonna waste any time worrying about that stuff. He has no idea who I am. He’s never talked to me in his life.”
By Wednesday, Arkush seemed to agree that he had made a mistake. He wrote for Shaw Media that his comments were “childish” and especially expressed remorse for bringing the integrity of the AP’s voting process for NFL MVP, colleagues, and past winners’ validity into question.
“I couldn’t possibly be more sorry for dragging all of you into my mess and I hope you will accept my apology.”
