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New York Jets owner Woody Johnson dismissed suggestions Aaron Rodgers could have ever quit football to be vaccine-sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr's running mate.
Johnson, a Donald Trump supporter, insisted his quarterback is fully focused on getting back out on the field after tearing his Achilles last season after just four minutes of his Jets debut.
But Johnson, 76, might have gone a bit too far for his quarterback's liking in rejecting the vice-president links by comparing it to the darkness retreat Rodgers embarked on last year.
'He is getting back to football 100 percent,' Johnson told FOX News. 'He never left football. That (running mate speculation) was a momentary distraction — maybe like going into a dark room or whatever.
'But he’s back 100 percent. Great leader. I tell the receivers: ‘You count to 10, hold your hands up and