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No, Aaron Rodgers did not have a bong on the sidelines during the Jets’ “Monday Night Football” loss to the Chargers.

But the item in the box he was holding could still get him into the party spirit.

Video circulated of the Jets quarterback, who is still rehabbing from the torn Achilles he suffered just four plays into his debut with the team, picking up a box before a beaker-shaped piece of glassware came tumbling out, spilling liquid in the process.

Rodgers clarified Friday on “The Pat McAfee Show” that it was not a bong, but instead a bottle of Maestro Dobel tequila.

“That was not a bong, first of all,” Rodgers said. “Let’s go through a couple of things. No. 1, I was dapping up by buddy Hugh [Coles]. Hugh plays George McFly in the new Broadway play ‘Back to the Future.’ So shout out to Hugh. No. 2, there’s a gentleman named John Sutcliffe, he is the ESPN Deportes sideline reporter and he’s tried to interview me in Spanish a few times with some funny results. I dap him up, it’s partly his fault because I was walking off the field with my Maestro Dobel tequila that John Sutcliffe gives me every time he sees me on ‘Monday Night Football.’

“I’m walking off and I hear a British guy yell my name. So I turn over and there’s Hugh, my buddy. He’s British, but he’s incredible in ‘Back to the Future’ without the accent. Anyway, I see Hugh, give him a hug, dap him up, go to pick it back up, s–t falls out and I lose half my tequila. So, shout out to John for bringing me tequila, shout out to Maestro Dobel, shout out to Hugh, shout out to bongs everywhere, but that was not one of them.”

Rodgers has previously been open about his use of ayahuasca, leading McAfee to say it must be “a cool feeling” that people would believe Rodgers would actually hold a bong on the sidelines.

Rodgers chided people who believed it.

“It’s a little weak with the conspiracies,” Rodgers said. “I feel like it should’ve been something more like, you know, dolphin semen or Giants tears or something better than that.”