Aaron Rodgers’ latest Packers training camp look had everyone making the same ‘Con Air’ jokes
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Aaron Rodgers’ preseason looks are legendary. Is this intentional? Sometimes.
In 2021, he spiced up July NFL headlines by co-opting teammate Aaron Jones’ shades and wearing an Homage shirt that put The Office’s Kevin Malone and his glorious, tragic pot of family recipe chili together in an NBA Jam mashup. In 2015, he got ahead of the Top Gun: Maverick hype by showing up to the Packers’ Welcome Back Luncheon in full fighter pilot gear. And in 2019, with an exhibition looming on the too-small-thanks-to-goalpost-holes field of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, he donned a full denim-on-denim Canadian tuxedo.
That laid weighty expectations on his 2022 training camp outfit. Rodgers exceeded them with an A-shirt/jeans/flow/stubble combination that brought up one man and one man only: former (fictional) Green Beret Cameron Poe:
That’s right, Rodgers’ arrival in Green Bay came with a full-on, Nic Cage in Con Air cosplay.