Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was so adamant in his defense of disgraced Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun last year that he offered to bet a Twitter follower his 2013 salary on Braun’s innocence.
Rodgers, who will make just under $9 million this year, tweeted the follower, “I’d put my salary next year on it.”
The Packers quarterback said Major League Baseball “picked the wrong guy to mess with” and the “the truth will set him free.” Rodgers tweeted his comments after Major League Baseball suspended Braun for 50 games for failing a drug test only to have Braun later win an appeal on a technicality when an arbitrator determined that the “chain of custody” was violated when a laboratory technician took Braun’s urine sample home before delivering it to FedEx.
On Monday, Braun admitted that he had violated baseball’s drug policy and accepted his suspension for the rest of the year (65 games) without pay. The Packers open training camp this week.
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