If Pat McAfee is going to go down, he's going to go down swinging.
The Post's Andrew Marchand wrote a column opining that if McAfee's show is going to cause a headache for ESPN in the wake of the Aaron Rodgers incident, McAfee's TV ratings need to be increased. In an explosive segment on Friday, McAfee called out ESPN executive Norby Williamson by name. -Jimmy Kimmel Dust-Up.
On Friday's show, McAfee spoke to co-host AJ Hawk about how the show is being rated on various platforms, and spoke to co-host AJ Hawk, ESPN's editor-in-chief and head of event studio production and president of the company. He began talking about Mr. Williamson, a member of Mr. Jimmy Pitaro's inner circle. .
“We are very grateful and understand that more people are watching this show than ever before. We are very grateful to the people at ESPN for their very kind response. , there are people from within ESPN who are actively trying to sabotage us. More specifically, I think it's Norby Williamson who is trying to sabotage our program,” McAfee said. Told.
“Right now, we're not 100 percent sure. It seems like they're the only ones with the information, but then that information gets leaked and it's false and that's what our show is about.” Set up a story.
“So, are we just going to fight rats every time? Someone tried to pre-empt the release of the actual ratings by using the wrong numbers 12 hours in advance. That's sabotage. It's an old addition to the ESPN family. It's been happening this entire season from some people who didn't necessarily like “The Pat McAfee Show.” There are many such things. ”
An ESPN spokesperson had no immediate comment on McAfee's remarks when asked by The Post.
Williamson is one of ESPN's longest-serving employees, having joined the company in 1985.
He is known as a proponent of meat-and-potatoes sports talk, and over the years has taken turns clashing with talented people who stray from that vision – Dan Le Batard Executive Producer Mike Ryan Tweet “Pat” with three applause emojis I had a great relationship with the people after the Friday afternoon segment and going on with it.
McAfee spoke on his show about a bad experience he had before joining ESPN.
“I've heard them quoted anonymously in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal. They don't necessarily say, 'I love the show.' It's always the little things that break us down. So even if the enemy is in my own camp, I don't like that guy,'' McAfee said.
“The man left me alone in his office for 45 minutes and did not meet with me in 2018. In other words, this man has no respect for me at all and instead did the same thing to him for a long time. So even if something like that happens…we're still somehow growing. I'm very grateful. I think we're doing it right. We're going to do it as right as possible. We have good intentions every time we come here. We don't always get it right, but mothers have been misunderstood in this particular area for a long time. Ta.”
