Green Bay Packers
Aaron Rodgers has a problem with reporter Molly Knight over an article she didn’t even write.
Wednesday, a day after joking about having “Covid toe” on the Pat McAfee ShowAndrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal took the Packers’ QB at his word and reported the Covid toe injury as a fact.
Aaron Rodgers returned to the field after his Covid-19 case, but now faces a painful toe injury which he called Covid Toe. That’s what science says about Covid Toe and what the Green Bay Packers star is up against. https://t.co/aa3zPTsHrR
– The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 24, 2021
While explaining that he had a broken toe and not a Covid toe, Rodgers misidentified Molly Knight as the author of the article while lambasting the Wall Street Journal for sharing “misinformation”.
Rodgers said it wasn’t a COVID toe. He was just joking with @PatMcAfeeShow yesterday and tore up the Wall Street Journal story that he supposedly had a COVID toe. He lifted his foot so we could see he had no COVID toe signs. He won’t be running out of time because of it.
– Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) November 24, 2021
Aaron Rodgers was clearly waiting for the COVID-toe question because you can hear him say, “I don’t know if I have room to put my toe up there,” at the start of his press conference.
Here is his full answer about his fractured toe – with said toe on screen. pic.twitter.com/hoC2UZTxME
– Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) November 24, 2021
“I expect a full apology from Molly Knight and her editor. I enjoyed reading this article. It was very, very interesting. But no, I had never heard of toe. COVID before. Pat made a joke about it on the show, and I mentioned yesterday that it was worse than a grass toe and must have been a bone problem. Believe I need to go on the air again and talk about my medical info But yeah I have a fractured toe, I’ve never heard of a COVID toe before, I have no injuries to my feet. It’s just a classic case of disinformation. It’s surprising, coming from what was once a famous journalistic institution. But that’s the world we live in today.
Knight, who shared a link to the Wall Street Journal article on his Twitter page with a sarcastic joke, revealed she was being harassed by angry Packers fans after Rodgers mistakenly identified her as the author of the WSJ story.
Since there seems to be some confusion: I didn’t write the Aaron Rodgers Covid Toes article. I don’t work for the Wall Street Journal. Please stop all this hate. Thank you.
– Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021
I don’t know why Aaron Rodgers mentioned my name at a press conference. I’m only finding out now because it’s crazy. I retweeted the WSJ article, then went to spin class and then to a homeless thread. https://t.co/BuG8H3KM8B
– Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021
Like how in the world? It’s so surreal. Please stop harassing me. Please. I did not write the article.
– Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021
Knight even asked WSJ writer Andrew Beaton to publicly state that she was not the author of the article.
Since Aaron Rodgers called me publicly thinking that I wrote your article when I was just posting it, and now the Packer fans wish me dead, can you please correct the recording here?
– Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021
