Aaron Rodgers had a tough time in an easy class
There’s just so much material from when Aaron Rodgers recently sat down on The Joe Rogan Experience. Big headlines came that the star quarterback of the Green Bay Packers played on the drug Percocet. Another crazy tale that Rodgers told involved his time as a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Rodgers claimed that a professor tried to get Rodgers expelled from the university.
Rodgers said he wrote a paper for a class entitled “Food Appreciation.” Out of 20 students in the class, Rodgers claimed that he was one of the 15 who cited their papers incorrectly. The other 14 students were permitted to rewrite their papers. Rodgers, however, was excluded. He visited the professor during her office hours, who was waiting for Rodgers.
Rodgers didn’t want special treatment
“Look, I’m not asking for a special privilege here. But the other 14 kids who got an F on the paper got to rewrite, and I didn’t,” Rodgers said he told the professor at her office. The professor allegedly went on a rant at Rodgers. She told the student that he was “an entitled athlete” and asked him what he would do with his life.
Rodgers told Rogan that he responded to the professor that Rodgers planned to play in the NFL. The professor told Rodgers there was “no way in hell” that Rodgers would make the NFL and that he “won’t amount to anything.” Rodgers fired back at the professor with “watch me.”
Aaron Rodgers went in front of a judicial affairs board at Cal
After the episode, Rodgers said the professor kept a vendetta against him as Rodgers had talked to a liaison at the university about what happened. The school put some heat on the food appreciation professor. He said the professor made up allegations that Rodgers was late to and disruptive in class.
“At the end of the semester, she wrote up a three-page paper trying to get me expelled from campus,” Rodgers said on the podcast. “I had to, in front of the judicial affairs board at Cal, in some like kangaroo court, and ended up having to write…It was two options. One expulsion, or two, I could write an apology letter to this teacher.”
That’s a crazy way to treat a college student
Rodgers shouldn’t have had to deal with that as a college student. If the other 14 kids got to rewrite their paper, Rodgers should have also been allowed to. Not all students can hope to have the ambition it takes to become a food appreciation professor, but one would think if they’re teaching a class to help bump GPAs, then one could try to have a little more humility.
Here’s the interview between Rodgers and Rogan on his exciting college days:
