This Aaron Rodgers Moment Sealed The Deal For Jeopardy! Fans

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00:00Fans are going crazy for NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers' new temp gig.

00:05He's the latest in a string of Jeopardy! guest hosts since Alex Trebek's death. His stint started

00:11on Monday, April 5, 2021, and he's already pretty good at it — which kind of doesn't seem fair.

00:17He's one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, he's handsome, he's smart — he went to the

00:21University of California, Berkeley, after all — and he was the winner of Celebrity Jeopardy!

00:27beating out former astronaut and current U.S. Senator Mark Kelly and Shark Tank's Kevin

00:31Mr. Wonderful O'Leary in 2015. Plus, Rodgers also recently got engaged to actor Shailene Woodley.

00:38According to The Wall Street Journal, Rodgers has hinted that he'd like to be the full-time host of

00:42Jeopardy!, and the fans are all here for it after he dropped a winking reference to the popular

00:48Saturday Night Live parody of Celebrity Jeopardy! In an interview with The Ringer, Rodgers said he

00:53planned to make his brief interviews with the contestants more fun. He said,

00:57The set producer will highlight questions that they've prompted them on.

01:00But a lot of times when I read the fun facts, I thought there was something way more interesting.

01:05And maybe it's just more interesting to me, but that's where I would go. I'd say,

01:09Hey, contestant, I'm going to talk about you and Burt Reynolds, just to give them a little heads up.

01:14On his second night hosting Jeopardy!, Rodgers dropped a reference to Turd Ferguson,

01:19a name Saturday Night Live fans will instantly recognize. During the interview with returning

01:24champ Brandon Deutsch on April 6, 2021, Rodgers said,

01:28It says here, when you were four months old,

01:31Burt Reynolds or was it Turd Ferguson was holding you at some point?

01:36The Turd Ferguson reference dates back to a 1999 episode of Saturday Night Live,

01:41with Will Ferrell playing Alex Trebek and Norm MacDonald portraying Burt Reynolds. In the sketch,

01:46Trebek notices that Reynolds changed the name on his podium from his actual name

01:51to Turd Ferguson. McDonald, as Reynolds says,

01:55That's right. Turd Ferguson. It's a funny name.

01:58Later, Rodgers took to Twitter to post a video of McDonald as Reynolds and captioned it,

02:03It's a funny name. McDonald retweeted Rodgers' shoutout and replied with laughter.

02:08And this wasn't even the first time Rodgers used the Turd Ferguson reference on Jeopardy!,

02:12When he was in rehearsals for Celebrity Jeopardy! in 2015, Rodgers responded,

02:17Who is Turd Ferguson? After Rodgers won, he tweeted,

02:20Had a blast on Jeopardy! checking off another bucket list item. Should have said Turd Ferguson

02:25on Final Jeopardy!, though. But did Burt Reynolds really hold Deutsch as a baby? Yep,

02:30it turns out the Jeopardy! champ sat next to Reynolds on a flight when he was an infant.

02:34That funny moment sealed the deal for some Jeopardy! fans, who started calling for Rodgers to be

02:39named the permanent host, according to Yahoo!, and Rodgers wants the job, too. But what about

02:44his current gig as quarterback for the Green Bay Packers? He couldn't do both, right? Maybe he could.

02:50During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers explained,

02:55I would love to be the host of Jeopardy!, yes.

02:58He added,

02:59I don't think I'd need to give up football to do it. They film 46 days a year. I worked 187 this

03:05year in Green Bay. That gives me 178 days to do Jeopardy!, so I feel like I could fit 46 into

03:12that 178 and make it work. It would be a dream job, for sure, and I'm not shy at all about saying

03:17I want the job. Plenty of fans seem to be willing to accept Rodgers as the full-time host of the

03:22long-running quiz show. One viewer claimed they're suddenly a huge Jeopardy! fan with Rodgers behind

03:28the podium. Another said they'd just picked up watching the show since Trebek's death and thought

03:33Rodgers did a good job. Yet another fan joked that if Rodgers doesn't take over full-time,

03:38the show might go down the toilet, complete with a toilet emoji. Plenty of other fans simply cheered

03:43on Rodgers as he settled into the show. As of the making of this video, there's no word on who will

03:49get the hosting job on a permanent basis, and there are several more guest hosts scheduled. Plus,

03:54there's a concurrent fan campaign to give Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton, who has yet to guest host,

04:00the gig. So we'll just have to wait to see what happens. Check out one of our newest videos right

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