Superstar Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will take the field on Sunday for the team’s first game of the new season but the NFL’s reigning Most Valuable Player has been drawing plenty of attention for his non-gridiron activities.

Rodgers hasn’t been shy about expressing his opinion on matters that run counter to the dominant cultural and political orthodoxy including vaccines, “woke” cancel culture and now, the dismal situation in his native state of California which has been decimated from decades of ruinous rule by far-left Democrats.

In an interview with comic Bill Maher for the latest episode of his “Club Random” podcast, the future NFL Hall of Famer said of California, “State’s going to s— but I’m hanging on,” according to advance excerpts of the discussion that were published by SF Gate prior to its public release.