Buried beneath a meandering avalanche of words, ESPN reluctantly platformed and profiled the NFL’s best player giving voice to the voiceless and speaking his truth to power.

An impatient and easily bored reader likely missed Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ rebuke of President Joe Biden. In a profile story stretching to 6,660 words, ESPN waited 5,302 words before publishing Rodgers’ harsh critique of the commander in chief’s vaccine mandate, cognitive dissonance, election landslide, popularity, and reliance on the CDC’s ever-moving goalposts.

The “worldwide leader in sports” prioritized rehashing well-known and well-worn Aaron Rodgers stories rather than highlighting the likely MVP’s excoriation of our 46th president. The story opened with a retelling of Rodgers mentioning Ayn Rand’s book, “Atlas Shrugged,” during a “Monday Night Football” interview with Peyton and Eli Manning. In no particular order, the profile then pivoted to reminding sports fans that Rodgers told Bears fans he owns them, used the word “immunized” when discussing his vaccination status, and failed to land a big-time scholarship offer coming out of high school.