With a freshly signed three-year, $150.8 million extension underneath his belt, storied Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is again for one more season within the ol’ Nationwide Soccer League. And on Day 1 of Packers coaching camp, that belt additionally occurred to be bolstering a ribbed white A-shirt tucked right into a pair of drainpipe blue denims.Mixed with a shoulder-grazing hairdo, the look garnered comparisons to Nicolas Cage’s flip because the Military-Ranger-turned-convict-liberator Cameron Poe within the 1997 prison-break thriller Con Air.
On Tuesday, the Packers posted a dramatic slo-mo video of Rogers saddling as much as the stadium with duffle bag in hand, trying quarterback-ly pensive whereas slicking a hand by means of his mane. Followers instantly clocked his resemblance to Cage’s Poe, right down to the shoulder-length mane, 5 o’clock (within the morning) shadow, and common grisly comportment. (To jog your reminiscence, the film stars Cage—alongside Steve Buscemi, John Malkovich, Dave Chapelle, and John Cusack, amongst others—as an affable ex-con making an attempt to rescue his fellow prisoners when Malkovich’s supervillain character, Cyrus “The Virus” Grissom, makes an attempt a scorched-earth coup of the aircraft they’re all being transported on.)
The doorway, whereas clearly orchestrated in some cheeky method—midway by means of the 30-second clip, Rogers tosses the bag to the bottom, as if he’s simply set a constructing on fireplace and is strolling away with out even turning to observe it burn—does elevate some questions. (Like: is Rodgers nonetheless making an attempt to, uh, thwart Cyrus The Virus?)
Or, maybe, he’s simply making an attempt to remind his fellow Packers that many arms make gentle work, or one thing. Then once more, it doesn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock to Rodgers intent on trolling along with his preseason theatrics. On Wednesday, he rocked a The Workplace T-shirt and a pair of holographic protect sun shades. Good to include multitudes.