Aaron Rodgers and his travel company, which included three other people, left Peru nine days ago, minutes from the airport closing due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Green Bay Packers quarterback revealed on a Friday program. radio.
Rodgers told Pat McAfee and his former partner A.J. Hawk, that was “more or less the test.”
Have you seen the movie ‘Argo’? Rodgers asked. “The scene at the end where they rush to the airport. No one was chasing us or fortunately holding us back. We didn’t have to speak Farsi to return to the country, but there were times when we worried about whether we would go out. It was the absolute pandemonium at the airport ”.
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Rodgers returned to his home in Malibu, California, and stayed home following the recommendations with his girlfriend Danica Patrick. He said of the four people on the trip that none have symptoms.
“So I think we are fine.”
He noted that there were other parts of South America in his travel plans, but they decided to cut them off. The group flew in on a private plane, which Rodgers said helped them leave the country as soon as possible. If they had flown in a commercial, he thinks they would not have come out when they did.
“Probably not, not immediately. “I know of planes and people who have not returned (since then)… When we left for the airport at around seven in the morning, there were so many people that you couldn’t move. I thought, ‘This is not very safe.’ There were no masks, and there was panic in the air. But somehow (we) did it, and then they closed the airport because of bad weather. ”
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