{"id":431915,"date":"2023-08-04T17:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=431915"},"modified":"2023-08-04T17:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:44:01","slug":"jets-browns-hall-of-fame-game-2023-lights-went-off-which-gave-rise-to-aaron-rodgers-darkness-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/jets-browns-hall-of-fame-game-2023-lights-went-off-which-gave-rise-to-aaron-rodgers-darkness-memes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets-Browns Hall Of Fame Game 2023: Lights Went Off Which Gave Rise To Aaron Rodgers Darkness Memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, as soon as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/news\/\">Jets<\/a> vs. Browns Hall of Fame Game went entirely dark, NBC quickly panned the camera onto quarterback Aaron Rodgers. As one might expect, as players and supporters waited for the lights to turn back on in Canton, Ohio, the picture of Rodgers, who was only minding his own business on the sidelines, quickly went viral.<\/p>\n<h2>Jets-Browns Hall Of Fame Game 2023: Lights Went Off Which Gave Rise To Aaron Rodgers Darkness Memes<\/h2>\n<p>Aaron Rodgers spent a portion of his offseason on what was dubbed a &#8220;darkness retreat&#8221; during which he sat in full darkness for four nights, thus it is simple to make fun of him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Rodgers back in the darkness retreat \ud83d\ude05 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A4naOrGOYG\">pic.twitter.com\/A4naOrGOYG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1687292405417168896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was the ideal setting for each and every &#8220;darkness retreat&#8221; joke about Rodgers that NFL fans might have been keeping to themselves (or sharing openly). As you can imagine, the comments poured in once the following photo hit the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Jets quarterback was visible on the sidelines during the delay, which lasted a little more than 15 minutes, and appropriately in the dark.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We gotta blame Aaron (Rodgers).&quot;- Cris Collinsworth<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#39;re out on a darkness retreat.&quot;- Mike Tirico \ud83d\ude02\ud83c\udfc8\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yQu7ZDEIlY\">pic.twitter.com\/yQu7ZDEIlY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1687296980383608832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Rodgers on another darkness retreat \ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dTcjNR6baH\">pic.twitter.com\/dTcjNR6baH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PFF (@PFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF\/status\/1687290835430195200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rodgers made a lot of news this offseason in February when he went on a retreat in the dark at Sky Cave Retreats in southern Oregon to help him make decisions about his NFL future because his time with the Packers was, at best, hazy before he was dealt to the Jets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Rodgers: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey man I\u2019m thinking about doing a mini Darkness Retreat, you in?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dalvin Cook: \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FinsUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FinsUp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DQ3t2BEsXB\">pic.twitter.com\/DQ3t2BEsXB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cameron Sparks (@Cam3ronSparks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cam3ronSparks\/status\/1685814628167692288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really wanted to contemplate some things with some relationships in my life, some family stuff, and then, obviously, career stuff, and just kind of let whatever was going to come in, come in. And it did, it definitely did,\u201d Rodgers said on the \u201cAubrey Marcus Podcast\u201d in March.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers was the target of several jokes on social media when Jets head coach Robert Saleh and Browns coach Kevin Stefanski met at midfield to determine whether the game would resume.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Rodgers on a spontaneous darkness retreat after the stadium lights went out \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E5tMSRyfc3\">pic.twitter.com\/E5tMSRyfc3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Footballville (@Footballville) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Footballville\/status\/1687290699677589504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Browns&#8217; official Twitter account joked that &#8220;this darkness retreat thing isn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t eat any psychedelics lol,\u201d replied one user who was referencing Rodgers\u2019 use and praise of the psychedelic drug ayahuasca.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Seahawks Geno Smith Is The One Who Convinced Coach Pete Carroll To Select Jaxon Smith Njigba\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/seahawks-geno-smith-is-the-one-who-convinced-coach-pete-carroll-to-select-jaxon-smith-njigba\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Seahawks Geno Smith Is The One Who Convinced Coach Pete Carroll To Select Jaxon Smith Njigba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, as soon as the Jets vs. Browns Hall of Fame Game went entirely dark, NBC quickly panned the camera onto quarterback Aaron Rodgers. As one might expect, as players and supporters waited for the lights to turn back on in Canton, Ohio, the picture of Rodgers, who was only minding his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":431916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,48],"tags":[12705,12704,12706,5940,12707,2211],"class_list":["post-431915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-jets","category-nfl","tag-aaron-rodger-darkness-memes","tag-aaron-rodgers-jets-browns-lights-off","tag-jets-aaron-rodger","tag-jets-news","tag-jets-browns-hall-of-fame-game-2023","tag-nfl-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}