Aaron Rodgers is guilty of a lot more than breaking NFL rules

As the NFL deliberated on whether to punish its three-time most valuable player, Aaron Rodgers, and the Green Bay Packers for flagrantly violating COVID-19 rules, the league needed to consider the terrible errors in judgment the quarterback committed.

It's bad enough that the unvaccinated Rodgers openly flouted NFL rules on mask wearing and distancing – and his team enabled him. Or that he lied about being "immunized."

But when Rodgers elected to defend himself spouting junk science, conspiracies and snake-oil remedies, he recklessly ignored his power as a football superstar to misinform millions of Americans hesitant about vaccination.

That's messing with people's lives.