This just in from the Fluffy Celebrity Folderol wing of the Blob, in which we discuss items of no particular merit except to answer the question, "She's dating him?"
Today's response: Yes, Danica Patrick is dating him. As in, Aaron Rodgers.
The romantic pairing of the NFL's most prolific passer and auto racing's one-time most prolific needle-mover immediately jumps them to the top of Sportsball World's power couple list, and also raises the subject of loyalty. Patrick, after all, grew up in Roscoe, Illinois, as a Chicago Bears fan. Rodgers plays for the Bears' mortal enemy, the Green Bay Packers. What to do, what to do.
Patrick already knows the answer to that.
"I told (Rodgers) a long time ago I'd always root for him as a player," she told the Associated Press. "Now I am probably going to cheer for the whole team."
And then:
"Take out the word 'probably.' Now I'm going to cheer for the whole team."
This will no doubt bring howls of pain from all the Grabowskis in Chicago, along with the usual declarations that "I never liked her anyway" and the tired old "What does she know, she couldn't drive a race car to save her life."
(Although how, in that case, you explain her six top-ten finishes in seven Indianapolis 500 starts is a legitimate question. Also what that has to do with her knowledge of football, and in particular the merits of the Bears vs. the Packers as football organizations.)
In any case, Patrick's rep as a serious football fan just took a major hit. No fan worth the name so easily throws over his or her team for his or her's most hated rival. It is, after all, just as much an affair of the heart as, well, affairs of the heart.
Or not, apparently.
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