Aaron Rodgers’ wallet should be lighter after Ryan Braun suspension

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers should be several million dollars poorer today. And some guy named Todd Sutton should be that much richer.

All because Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun was suspended for 65 games Monday for multiple violations of baseball’s drug policy. And because of a now-deleted bet between Rodgers and Sutton last year.

Back in February 2012, Braun had a 50-game suspension for basically the same charges overturned, with an arbitration panel finding concerns with the way the player’s urine samples were handled. There’s a widespread belief that Braun got off on a technicality.

Rodgers was not one of those people. He went on a Twitter rant at the time in support of his fellow Wisconsin sports star:

In a now-deleted exchange that you can see above thanks to the folks at Yahoo! Sports, Sutton challenged Rodgers: “you really believe he didn’t [use] PEDs????#delusional�

Rodgers responded: “ya I’d put my salary next year on it.�

Not a peep from Rodgers on Twitter since the Braun news broke Monday. And the only mention on Sutton’s feed has been this retweet:

And now this:

Too bad there’s no way to officially shake hands on Twitter. Maybe it should take the place of the delete function.

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