Just like the rest of the Internet, Aaron Rodgers is a big Game of Thrones fan. The Green Bay Packers quarterback is getting ready for another season in the NFL, but that doesn’t mean Sundays this fall won’t be Thrones Sundays for him. He just might be watching it a bit later
Rodgers talked to The Ringer about the most important piece of art in our time and boy, did he have some things to say.
His big theory: that Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister, and Daenerys are all siblings.
“I think that Jon Snow, Daenerys, and the Hand of the Queen [Tyrion Lannister] — I think they are all related. Three dragons, three riders, three siblings,” Rodgers says. “We know from Bran, the Three-Eyed Raven, that Ned Stark was not Jon Snow’s father. The Mad King might have been his father, might have been him — and that would make Daenerys and Jon brother and sister. And then Tyrion, we don’t know who his mother is, who Tywin slept with. I think there’s some sort of relationship. At least Jon Snow and Daenerys are going to be working together, and they are mining the dragon glass.”
Before taking another beat, he adds: “Oh, I would love to see Cersei get her head whacked off.”
Rodgers has taken to avoiding social media for a day or two if he can’t watch an episode live, which is a problem when the rest of your football team watches the show and wants to talk about it on Monday morning.
In addition to preemptively warding off fans, the quarterback has to protect himself from the guys who normally protect him. On Sunday night, tackle Bryan Bulaga approached Rodgers near the dorms for training camp.
“I said, ‘It was amazing!’ and he said, ‘I don’t even want to hear any reactions!’” Bulaga says. “It’s not my fault that you don’t watch it live. That is not my problem.”
“I said, ‘Stop, stop, stop, I’m behind,’” Rodgers says. “Monday morning, a couple of guys are going, ‘Well …’ and you’re going, ‘Stop stop stop.’”
He’s clearly very invested in this, and it sounds like Rodgers has been trolling the Thrones Reddit page, or at least watching some Alt Shift X videos on YouTube to keep tabs on things. He’s got more time to invest in television now that he and Olivia Munn are no longer together. But sometimes time apart is good. You can refocus your passions and figure out what’s important to you: huckin’ pigskin and flying dragons, mostly.
