{"id":12147,"date":"2025-07-15T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12147\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:34:05","slug":"fans-and-haters-are-buying-aaron-rodgers-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12147\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans \u2014 and haters \u2014 are buying Aaron Rodgers T-shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of Steelers fans love Aaron Rodgers. Plenty of other Steelers fans do not.<\/p>\n<p>Love or hate, they\u2019re buying Aaron Rodgers T-shirts.<\/p>\n<p>As explained by Joe Lister of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a purveyor of Rodgers-related merch believes that gear is being purchased both by fans of Rodgers \u2014 and by foes.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Dudas told Lister that customers \u201cwho go out of their way to say how much they dislike the quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people are like, \u2018<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/steelers\/2025\/07\/14\/aaron-rodgers-merchandise-strip-district\/stories\/202507140055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I want a shirt just so I can burn it<\/a>,\u2019 \u201d Dudas told Lister.<\/p>\n<p>T-shirts apparently are doing well because they\u2019re much cheaper than a jersey. And fans may not be interested in buying the jersey of a one-year player.<\/p>\n<p>The point for now is that plenty of Steelers fans remain skeptical. If he plays well, they\u2019ll come around. If he doesn\u2019t, they\u2019ll get loud.<\/p>\n<p>Which raises the stakes for Rodgers in the three winnable games to start the season \u2014 at the Jets, vs. the Seahawks, and at the Patriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plenty of Steelers fans love Aaron Rodgers. Plenty of other Steelers fans do not. Love or hate, they\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-12147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}