No bookie would let Aaron Rodgers off the hook this easy.
The Packers quarterback — who last year “bet” his salary that buddy Ryan Braun was clean — may only have to pay a fraction of his $39.5 million salary this season, if he doesn’t welch on his wager altogether.
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Todd Sutton — who prompted Rodgers’ statement last year when he tweeted at the former NFL MVP, “you really believe he didn’t you PED’s???? #delusional” — told USA Today that he’d take just a fraction of Rodgers’ on-field earnings as payment.
“I’d just take a game check,” Sutton told the paper. “I’m not really expecting to hear from him. It’d be cool, but I doubt it’s going to happen.”
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A game check would run Rodgers $281,250.
The Packers quarterback finds himself in this situation after responding to Sutton’s initial tweet last February on the day his 50-game suspension was overturned following a chain-of-custody protest by Braun. “ya, i’d put my salary next year on it. #ponyup #exonderated,” Rodgers wrote in response to Sutton.
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“He was probably trying to embarrass me on Twitter,” Sutton told USA Today. “But it has kind of reversed now.”
Rodgers, of course, was proven to be on the wrong side of the issue when MLB suspended Braun for the remainder of the season for violating the league’s drug policy, a suspension the 2011 NL MVP didn’t protest.
Rodgers has been silent on Twitter about Braun, and his bet with Sutton, since the news of the Brewer’s suspension broke on Monday.
But he’ll be sure to face questions about both topics when the Packers open training camp on Friday in De Pere, Wisc.
