Aaron Rodgers says he was nearly stuck abroad during the early days of the coronavirus shutdown in March.
The Green Bay Packers QB appeared on a radio show Friday and detailed that his party of three boarded one of the last flights out of Peru about 10 days ago, before flights were at risk of being suspended at the local airport nearest to the remote location where they were staying.
“When we rolled up to the airport at like 7 in the morning,” Rodgers said on the Pat McAfee Show, “It was wall-to-wall people, and you couldn’t move. I was thinking, ‘This isn’t very safe.’ Not many masks on, and there was definitely a panic in the air,” he said.
“But somehow we made it down, and then they shut the airport down because it was really bad weather. They had a drop-dead time where they were going to shut the entire airport down. We made it by about 15 minutes.”
The former MVP even compared the scene to a movie.
“Have you seen the movie Argo? The scene at the end where they’re racing to the airport. Nobody was chasing us, thankfully, or holding us. … There were some moments where we worried we were not going to get out. It was absolute pandemonium at the airport.”
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Rodgers then revealed he has been self-isolating since returning to his California home with girlfriend and retired NASCAR driver Danica Patrick.
