Rodgers carefully failed to mention the front office by name, perhaps intimating Gutekunst, Murphy and even Russ Ball are among the reasons he feels the organization’s philosophy has changed by planning for the future even while Rodgers continues to play at the highest level. Gutekunst even admitted after the draft that communication over last year’s number one choice of Love could have been better. But for that to create the divide that has Rodgers so adverse to the current culture that he might sit out the 2021 season or possibly retire to leverage his way out of Green Bay remains baffling to almost everyone.
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Mayne joined ESPN on a full-time basis in 1994. He had previously worked for Seattle’s KSTW from 1982-89, then did odd jobs including telemarketing, sales, and even garbage can assembly, but he repeatedly pitched ESPN, and eventually got some freelance work there and then a full-time job there. At ESPN, he worked on
SportSmash and
SportsCenter, then did horse racing and
Sunday NFL Countdown features called
The Mayne Event, then scripted series
Mayne Street and then the world-travelling
Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports before rejoining
SportsCenter in 2013. Here’s a classic
The Mayne Event clip: