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You're out of your element Aaron! Rodgers rocks 'The Big Lebowski' sweater

WARNING: In the following post I will desperately try to squeeze in a lot of jokes you will not get if you haven’t seen “The Big Lebowski,” the Coen brothers’ 1998 cult hit that is also the funniest movie ever made. And if you haven’t seen the movie … what are you thinking?

Aaron Rodgers wins. Cam Newton can dress like Willy Wonka or whatever he has planned this weekend and it will not beat Rodgers – or Aaroner, or El Aaronerino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing – coming to his postgame press conference wearing the same sweater as The Dude in “The Big Lebowski.”

There’s a Green Bay Packers quarterback I want to tell you about. Quarterback by the name of Aaron Rodgers. Now this here story I’m about to unfold took place on Thursday night, just after the time the Packers won their conflict with John Fox and the Bears. I only mention it because sometimes there’s a quarterback … I won’t say a hero, because, what’s a hero? But sometimes there’s a quarterback – and I’m talking about Aaron Rodgers here – sometimes there’s a quarterback, well, he’s the quarterback for his time and place.

The quarterback abides.

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You don’t go out looking to win an NFL game looking like that, on a weekday? Next week, perhaps he’ll wear the Medina Sod bowling shirt. (But we all know what happens next … he fixes the cable.)

Does this mean that Mike McCarthy wears the Walter Sobchak get-up next week?

McCarthy had running backs who got injured face down in the muck so that he and you could enjoy this victory Friday! 52-year-olds, dude.

No word if Rodgers’ special lady friend Olivia Munn approved of the outfit (does it look like he’s married? The toilet seat is up, man!), but it wasn’t a cheap joke. the Lebowski-style sweater goes for $239 so Rodgers, uh, just had to go find a cash machine. It was a great plan, Aaron. Ingenious, if we understand it correctly. A Swiss (expletive) watch.

As we know, sometimes you eat the Chicago Bears, and sometimes, well, the Bears eat you. After the Packers marked it 26-10 dude, telling the Bears to “Stay outta Ashwaubenon, Barkley!” Rodgers took ‘er easy for all us sinners and spoke to the media in the sweater. Rodgers is required to speak after games because this is not ‘Nam, Smokey, this is the NFL’s media policies. There are rules. And say what you want about the tenets of the National Football League, dude, but at least it’s an ethos. No, reporters, it did not look like Aaron was about to crack.

There was probably an unspoken message, and it was forget you, leave Aaron the (expletive) alone! Yeah, he’ll be at practice on Monday. It was a very complicated game. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. The Bears proved to be a buncha amateurs. And in throwing for 326 yards, Rodgers showed he’s not exactly a lightweight, dude. Mr. Rodgers draws a lot of water in that town.

Hopefully Rodgers keeps wearing the sweater. It really tied the media room together.

Shomer Shabbos!

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