Cam Newton backs Aaron Rodgers, claiming NFL 'players, coaches and executives' used fake COVID vaccine cards

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It escaped vast attention last week when Aaron Rodgers suggested during his appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show" that NFL people got past league COVID-19 protocols by obtaining "fake" vaccination cards. And now, former quarterback Cam Newton is joining that chorus.

Newton, appearing on his "4th & 1" podcast on Monday, addressed the 2021 NFL protocols that required all team employees – players, coaches, staff, everyone – to get Covid-19 shots so as to avoid stringent frequent testing in order to enter team facilities.

All coaches were forced to take the shots or not work. Players who did not have their shots indeed had to submit to daily testing and had to wear a mask within the team facility and practice distancing guidelines during meals, meetings and workouts.

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FILE — New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton leaves the field after an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, in this Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, file photo, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

"If we're being honest," Newton said on his podcast, "Going back to 2020, there were multiple players, coaches, and executives that fraudulently got their COVID shot. Yes, I said it."

That allegation supports what Rodgers said last week in the middle of what was mostly a viral criticism of Anthony Fauci's testimony in front of the United States Senate.

Fauci, one of the leading members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in 2020 under President Donald Trump, was a strong proponent of the vaccines when they were