Aaron Rodgers is easily one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. He might just be the best one, overall. As it happens, the Green Bay Packers star passer is also a boss when it comes to Jeopardy.
Rodgers appeared on Tuesday’s Celebrity Jeopardy episode and destroyed in a variety of ways, as he ultimately topped fellow celebrity competitors, Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary and astronaut Mark Kelly. A-Rod took the win with a final score of $8,399, which won him $50,000 for his charity, Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer. While it was a noble cause and Rodgers’ win was impressive, it was perhaps his timely humor that stole the show.
After missing what some deem to be an easy answer late in the game, Rodgers later tweeted what he should have said.
Turd Ferguson references a character on Saturday Night Live’s parody of Celebrity Jeopardy, where SNL legend Norm MacDonald portrays iconic actor Burt Reynolds, who for some reason takes to the shows as a wise-cracking caricature of himself, better known as Turd Ferguson.
Rodgers did his best to offer his own jokes during his own stay on the actual Celebrity Jeopardy, as he photo-bombed Kevin O’Leary and also gave O’Leary a sharp look after answering a question with the word “shark”.
Rodgers was such a hit on the show, in fact, that long-time host Alex Trebek paid tribute by doing Rodgers’ well-known “discount double-check” move.
Aaron Rodgers took it to Twitter to mention that he’s now won a Super Bowl, been named MVP and is now even a game show champion. What’s next for the star quarterback? Perhaps winning another MVP as he leads his Packers to another Super Bowl title in 2015.
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