Peyton Manning Talks Carrie Underwood, Aaron Rodgers Jab

Protecting it lighthearted. Peyton Manning jokingly warned his 2022 CMA Awards cohost, Luke Bryan, to not rock the boat — particularly after receiving some main aspect eye from Carrie Underwood final 12 months.

“Carrie Underwood and I’ve loads in widespread,” Manning, 46, mentioned to Bryan, 46, throughout their opening monologue on the Wednesday, November 9, occasion. “We each work with Brad Paisley we’ve each been on Sunday Night time Soccer loads, and we’re each very nervous about what Luke Bryan may say tonight.”

As the gang burst into laughter, Bryan replied, “Hell, even I’m nervous about what Luke Bryan may say tonight.”

The NFL star’s feedback come after the November 2021 awards present, when the American Idol decide made a quip about Aaron Rodgers’ coronavirus anti-vaccine stance, which 39-year-old Underwood’s husband, Mike Fisher, overtly supported.

“No matter makes you nation, you might be welcome right here tonight,” Bryan joked on the time. “Relaxation assured, we’re following all of the well being protocols to maintain everybody protected, and it’s so nice to be right here with all my fellow artists — examined and collectively,” he informed the viewers. “Or immunized? Who’s it? Simply enjoying.”

The digicam then panned to Underwood, who didn’t snicker, as an alternative giving the “Nation Woman” singer a harsh glare.

In November 2021, Fisher, 42, made headlines when he took to social media to help Rodgers, 38, who confronted criticism after testing optimistic for COVID-19. The quarterback alleged on the time that he “didn’t lie” about his vaccination standing after claiming that he was “immunized,” and had discovered an “immunization protocol” to stick to as an alternative of getting vaccinated.

Fisher, for his half, revealed that he stood behind his buddy’s beliefs.

“I imagine within the freedom to decide on what we put in our our bodies and the liberty of conscience,” the previous NHL star wrote by way of Instagram. “I agree with him in that the science clearly exhibits the vaccinated unfold covid at mainly the identical fee because the unvaccinated. The @nhl @nfl and different leagues are ignoring the science and selecting to coerce and punish unvaccinated gamers with these restrictions. In the event that they actually cared about individuals’s well being they might have day by day testing for all.”

Fisher claimed that the previous two years proved that the coronavirus “shouldn’t be about our well being, it’s about management over our lives” and he is not going to “stand for that.”

He concluded: “It’s time to combat for our medical freedom and I really feel for these which were fired for selecting medical freedom. Individuals shedding their jobs over a medical selection is un-American and unacceptable. We have to rise up now earlier than it’s too late!! #medicalfreedom #istandwithaaronrodgers.”

The “Earlier than He Cheats” songstress, in the meantime, “preferred” Fisher’s publish and the pair — who’re mother and father of sons Isaiah, 6, and Jacob, 2 — attended the CMAs collectively that very same month.