Pat McAfee?
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Get used to hearing about him. Will be a huge part of ESPN and College GameDay going forward after all the layoffs they made, and huge salary they are paying him.
Was a very good NFL punter but retired early. He had a pretty big sports podcast for a few years and ESPN just recently signed him.
Haven’t watched much of him, I started watching the Fox kickoff show… Pretty good show they put on at Fox…
He likes too talk tho, I’ll give him that
He likes too talk tho, I’ll give him that
He came after Max Duffy pretty hard last summer and even downed UK Football also. Heck, even though he was a successful NFL punter for years, he went to freakin West Virginia, so how could he act all high and mighty?!!! I can't stand him!!! He is an arrogant know it all that has rose to prominence by snowing the public.
He’s another of this new breed of douche bag media personalities that bloviates incessantly and every opinion has to be an over the top hot take. Also, get a load of some of his outfits. Think Stephen A Smith with Ru Paul as his fashion consultant.
Agreed with this take completely. He's a know it all who loves to hear himself talk. And annoying as hell on top of it.
Would listen to just fired David Pollack, even with his UGA love, over this DBag 10 out of 10 times. Is it an indictment on our society these days that this blow hard and Steven A are so popular?
If he's going to be featured every week on gameday, I'm going to finally switch to the Fox or SEC show. Gameday has kind of sucked for years now and this'll put it over the edge IMO.
Agree with both. They just signed him to a mega deal so he will be everywhere.
He is the typical current day jerk/troll but it gets impressions online and that's what counts. I talk about this alot on here when bbn always falls for it. ESPN loves these guys, see Stephen a and skip before skip signed an insane deal with another network.
For comparison, they fired Todd mcshay. I wasn't nuts about the guy, but he was analytical and vanilla. That just doesn't sell right now in the eyes of the msm. They want attitude and social media and that's built through trolling
I think his group are near NFL only level sports talk…I have no idea what they/h brings to any college football, any basketball or baseball…or any other sports topics. So from august to January…he can do NFL void. I have no idea how he draws college fans of any level not other sports
But part of his Schlick js guys being guys and they drop f bombs ljke sailors. Is they going to get past FCC rules and be allowed in espn?
But part of his Schlick js guys being guys and they drop f bombs ljke sailors. Is they going to get past FCC rules and be allowed in espn?
WWE wrestler/announcer as well. He’s pretty entertaining and puts on a show for the most part.
Passed on his last nfl contract and joined barstool before it was the barstool we know today, went out on his own and is now one of the bigger and most influential sports talking types.
I think a small part of the most recent round of firings at Espn was Disney clearing the deck for him. Their cast of talkers and rhetoric across the board had obviously been a part of their slump over the past handful of years.
Pat has the pull with the coveted younger millennials and gen z demographics via how he came up through barstool, then his own online, podcast, social media presence...
Also, tank top, no filter, not political, from Pennsylvania, played for WVU, and middle America's team in Indy... he'll bring middle working-class fan back to the table for espn.
I think a small part of the most recent round of firings at Espn was Disney clearing the deck for him. Their cast of talkers and rhetoric across the board had obviously been a part of their slump over the past handful of years.
Pat has the pull with the coveted younger millennials and gen z demographics via how he came up through barstool, then his own online, podcast, social media presence...
Also, tank top, no filter, not political, from Pennsylvania, played for WVU, and middle America's team in Indy... he'll bring middle working-class fan back to the table for espn.
Technically the FCC doesn’t rule over cable, and cable has no obligation to censor themselves (see the “****” episode of South Park), so in theory they could drop the F bomb 1000 times in a row. But they’ll likely self censor anyway.
He is a tool but he was not cheap.
From an analytics standpoint of interactions across all platforms, he warrants that kind of money. It's back to the troll discussion.
To that end, he unfairly attacked max Duffy last year and of course tons of bbn tweeted him telling him he was (obviously) wrong. Did he suffer from spewing nonsense? Just the opposite. All those interactions and views, along with the others, helped drive him to a rich deal.
No patience for these bipolar know-It—alls.
They dumped a couple of good ones for this dweeb.
They dumped a couple of good ones for this dweeb.
ESPN must have some real smart people making these decisions, they keep this guy and Stephen A. Smith
I liked his work as the Smackdown commentator and the few matches he wrestled from time to time in the company.
I’d say Stephen A Smith with Kid Rock handling wardrobe duties. Wife beaters and gold chains as a tv personality?
Dude was so obnoxious on Gameday last year. I hope he doesn’t last, but I suspect he will.
I've never seen Kid Rock wearing sequins and a feather boa, which I have seen McAfee wear. Also, saw him wearing what looked like a woman's suit skirt at SB, though I guess it was shorts. Though I will give you that he likes to rock the tank tops like KR.
Any man that keeps a Jared Lorenzen figure on their desk is good in my book.Haven’t watched much of him, I started watching the Fox kickoff show… Pretty good show they put on at Fox…
He likes too talk tho, I’ll give him that
The problem will be that Pat had no censor as a podcast. Disney is going to have people watching him and noting him to death even if they promised he could do his show how he wants. It'll be interesting how that $80million cost affects his show. I watched it depending on the guest. It was funny at times.
Fond of swimming in the canal in Broad Ripple. A nit wit bluffing his way to a different success after football. Annoying.
Former Colts punter. He's nuts, but entertaining. He once drove his car into a retaining pond near Indy.