ESPN is once again in the crosshairs of Pat McAfee.
The former Colts punter and host of a television show of the same name that airs on ESPN, List of the top 100 professional athletes since 2000.
Worldwide Leader has previously released its rankings of the 51st through 100th best athletes, and said it used contributors from ESPN editions around the world to compile the extensive list.
McAfee is used to voicing his opinions, but on his show on Tuesday he said the entire process had been a “horrible show.”
“Dan Orlovsky, who’s been on ESPN all morning, joins us in six minutes. We’re going to be criticizing him and ESPN as a whole for a lot of the crap that the people at ESPN have put out. Now, the people at ESPN have put out a top 100 list, and frankly, it’s everything that everybody hates about ESPN,” McAfee said.
“The ranking of the top 100 athletes of the 21st century was released yesterday, and they only released numbers 50 through 100. What a terrible list.”
This isn’t the first time in recent weeks that McAfee has lashed out at the network following ESPN’s decision to present Prince Harry with the Pat Tillman Service Award at this year’s ESPY Awards.
A few days before the show aired last week, McAfee blasted the decision on his own show.
“It goes to Prince Harry,” McAfee said. “I don’t think he’s a prince anymore? I told you not to call me that. Look, why does the ESPY do this?”
And in January, during an exchange between Aaron Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel that played out in part on his show, McAfee blasted then-ESPN executive Norby Williamson, who the host believed was trying to “sabotage” the former NFL player’s popular show.
“We’re very grateful and we understand that more people are watching this show than ever before and we’re very appreciative of the way everyone at ESPN has been so accommodating. Right now there are people from within ESPN who are actively trying to sabotage it. More specifically, we believe Norby Williamson is the person trying to sabotage our show,” McAfee said.
Four months later, Williamson left sports giant ESPN after nearly four decades with the company.
