Jodie Foster addresses Aaron Rodgers’ random shoutout of her in his NFL MVP speech

The biggest thing everyone focused on when Aaron Rodgers delivered his acceptance speech for NFL MVP was the fact that he thanked his “fiancee” amid reports that he and actress Shailene Woodley were an item.

But within that speech was also a shoutout to actress Jodie Foster.

The connection, some thought? Foster is in The Mauritanian, who just so happens to co-star … Shailene Woodley. Could she have connected Woodley and Rodgers somehow?

But as Foster said on Thursday night while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, she doesn’t know Rodgers at all, but she knows “I’m his biggest fan.” They did go on to talk about Woodley, but in the context of Foster and her hanging out while filming together:

Foster is, in fact, a huge Packers fan, as she told Conan O’Brien in 2016:

So there you go! That’s the connection.