When you add a 42-year-old quarterback with opinions that straddle the line between \u201coutside the box\u201d and \u201cf\u2014kin\u2019 nutty\u201d into a room full of twentysomethings, interesting things can happen.<\/p>\n
Case in point, Steelers receiver DK Metcalf now believes that there\u2019s a civilization living inside the earth. He also believes Antarctica is \u201canother world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I\u2019m a big conspiracy theorist,\u201d Metcalf recently told Jonathan Jones of The Athletic. \u201cShout out to my quarterback<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019s talking about Aaron Rodgers, the de facto king of NFL conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can go to Alaska. You could go to the North Pole,\u201d Metcalf said. \u201cBut why not Antarctica? Why can\u2019t you just book a trip to Antarctica?\u201d<\/p>\n Metcalf also believes that the world\u2019s leaders gather from time to time in Antarctica.<\/p>\n But Metcalf\u2019s tendency toward conspiracy theories predated his time with Aaron Rodgers, who along with Metcalf joined the Steelers in 2025. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been on it,\u201d Metcalf told Jones. \u201cBut it just so happened that we can bond over it.\u201d<\/p>\n The article doesn\u2019t address whether Metcalf and Rodgers bonded over any specific conspiracy theories that have been attributed to Rodgers, including whether 9\/11 was real<\/a> and possibly that Sandy Hook was an inside job<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you add a 42-year-old quarterback with opinions that straddle the line between \u201coutside the box\u201d and \u201cf\u2014kin\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-841377","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\/841377","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=841377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}