Muzzling NFL Great Ken Ruettgers
RFK Jr Podcast
Robert Kennedy Jr
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Super Bowl Champ and Green Bay Packers Hall of Famer, Ken Ruettgers, discusses censorship and trying to improve America's medical system in this episode.
Ken Ruettgers was born in Bakersfield, CA and attended Garces Memorial High School before heading to the University of Southern California (USC) on an athletic scholarship. Ken was a first-round draft choice (seven overall) of the Green Bay Packers and culminated a 12-year career with a Super Bowl season in 1996 (Super Bowl XXXI). Ruettgers and his family moved to Oregon when he took a job with Multnomah Publishers as editorial director. In 2000, he left publishing and started a none-profit, GamesOver.org, to assist athletes with the challenges of sport career transition. Ken currently is a tenured professor and teaches sociology at Central Oregon Community College and is the department chair for Social Sciences. Ken earned his undergraduate in business as well as an MBA. He holds a PhD in sociology from Oxford Graduate School. Ruettgers was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 2013. He is the author of “Homefield Advantage: A Dad’s Guide to the Power of Role Modeling”. Ken is married to Sheryl and they have three adult children.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome everybody. Today we have an amazing guest. We have the football grade, |
| 0:04.3 | Kent Rutgers, Green Bay Packers, Hall of Fame, Super Bowl Champion, and now medical fairness advocate. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome to the show, Kent. Well, thanks. It's great to be here with you, Robert. |
| 0:18.6 | It's been quite a journey. You're new to this phase, but you've been really courageous in talking |
| 0:24.0 | about it. So tell us what happened to you. Well, I don't even see this courageous. I just see |
| 0:28.7 | you this speaking out on behalf of I really advocating for my wife. So my wife took the first |
| 0:35.2 | minute during a shot in January. She was working on her masters in counseling. So she was at the top |
| 0:40.7 | of the list for the rollout and immediately started within 48 hours swollen lymph nodes and |
| 0:47.6 | eventually progressed to numbness and tingling on her face for scalp down her arms into her hands |
| 0:54.6 | on her legs. And in fact, she just had a doctor's appointment yesterday with her neurologist. |
| 1:00.0 | And it is since her first appointment back in late January, early February. Over the last six |
| 1:05.9 | months, it's gotten progressively worse for tingling and numbness. So she joined a group early on |
| 1:13.0 | and is not unable to find answers. So she's done a lot. We've both done a lot of research, |
| 1:17.9 | and that's the beginning of our journey. What day did she get the vaccine? She got a January |
| 1:23.0 | 14th. So it's interesting you asked that because I've done a lot of interviews and talked to a lot |
| 1:28.4 | of people in the different groups that have found each other. Many of them on Facebook, some of them |
| 1:34.0 | have recently been private groups have been canceled by Facebook. But it's interesting that you |
| 1:39.6 | ask because and I'm sure you probably hear this with your long work as people know these. The people |
| 1:44.4 | that are they know the exact date, which is so interesting to me. Did you get that night? |
| 1:51.7 | No, no, I was I currently I teach at a college, but we were doing all the zoom, zoom teaching |
| 1:58.0 | for the last year and a half. And so I was weighed down on the list. Quite vaccine hesitant now, |
| 2:03.9 | at least. Yeah, we've vaccine has a vaccine. It's a vaccine. I don't think so because I don't |
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