Pat McAfee gets multi-year deal worth $30 million annually

[Col. Nathan R. Jessup]

Being an anti-vax hick pays, I guess

Yes, it does. Pays Joe Rogan nicely. But, that has nothing to do with McAfee. He is not anti-vaccine, so I'm not sure why this comment was even made.

Anyway, I got really into the NFL season in 2020. I'm talking, it became my No. 1 sport, I was watching out-of-market games, gambling. Pandemic boredom. I listened to Pat McAfee five days a week and there is no doubt the show has substance (thanks to its guests); it really did make me a smarter and much better informed football fan. Good for him to get this deal. Dude works his ass off.

 

[Della9250]

 

[swingline]

Is that Pat? I couldn't have picked him out of a lineup. He has no relevance in my life.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Hopefully some of that ESPN money winds up in the account of this young woman.

ESPN’s Pat McAfee and others amplified a false rumor. A teenager’s life was ‘destroyed’

An Ole Miss freshman has engaged legal representation and says she intends to take action against McAfee, ESPN, and potentially others

www.nytimes.com

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

Cool. I had no idea he was a professional football player.

average punter, maybe SLIGHTLY above average, given his longevity, but he was Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison and Marshall Faulk's teammate, he won a Supe

 

[Baron Scicluna]

average punter, maybe SLIGHTLY above average, given his longevity, but he was Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison and Marshall Faulk's teammate, he won a Supe

That was Hunter Smith who won the SB as the Colts' punter. McAfee's first year was the year the Colts lost to the Saints.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

Hopefully some of that ESPN money winds up in the account of this young woman.

ESPN’s Pat McAfee and others amplified a false rumor. A teenager’s life was ‘destroyed’

An Ole Miss freshman has engaged legal representation and says she intends to take action against McAfee, ESPN, and potentially others

www.nytimes.com

Yeah, I hope that slandered young woman sues McAfee and Disney for a big bag. The wannabe frat boy is an insufferable douche nozzle and the reason I don't watch GameDay.

 

[Scout]

You just can't say this shirt about a non-public figure, no matter how many times and how you say allegedly.

Just giving and open mic and a massive following to a putz who probably never set foot in a journalism classroom can be very expensive.

fork around and pay out.

 

[SixToe]

I'm kind of surprised she and/or the father haven't sued already. Maybe they're simply gearing up for the monstrously huge financial enema they're going to hit this POS and ESPN with soon.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

I'm kind of surprised she and/or the father haven't sued already. Maybe they're simply gearing up for the monstrously huge financial enema they're going to hit this POS and ESPN with soon.

Yeah, but a legal challenge against Disney will be expensive. Disney will send a regiment of lawyers and deck around and delay and try all kinds of legalese. If it does go to court, I hope the plaintiffs get a no-nonsense judge.

 

[DanOregon]

This is kind of what I was getting at with the "Should anyone be able to be sued for libel?" thread.

 

[clintrichardson]

A couple years ago McAfee and Aaron Rodgers were on the air ripping an article about Rodgers, claiming that it was based on anonymous sources and thus couldn't be believed. The problem was that the article had like a dozen named sources in it, all former teammates of Rodgers. The next show McAfee opened the program by apologizing to the reporter and recognizing that he had inaccurately described her work. I'm guessing someone in the legal department spoke to him, because if the reporter had wanted to sue, she had a winning case, re: "reckless disregard for the truth" and all that.

My point is: He should know better by now, and he doesn't.