Pat McAfee says he worries he’s not doing the right thing in his most candid comments yet about the Aaron Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel drama on his show. On his show, he revealed that there were nights when he couldn’t sleep.
Rodgers’ weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” was headline-grabbing news due to the NFL star’s controversial comments about the coronavirus vaccine and other topics before his altercation with ABC’s late-night host. It became.
The Post reported in October that the Jets quarterback was being paid seven figures for weekly appearances.
But things came to a head earlier this year when Mr. Rogers suggested that Mr. Kimmel’s name could be on a list linked to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“It’s been really hot on this block for about three weeks,” McAfee said on Showtime’s “All the Smoke” podcast this week.
The former player said his show’s airtime on ESPN was short-lived when “Aaron started a war with Jimmy Kimmel on our show” and because of Mr. Rodgers’ attacks on vaccines and Dr. Anthony Fauci. He said he has already heard people predicting that it will be.
With the constant controversy surrounding Rodgers’ comments on McAfee’s show, he certainly did stop and question what was going on, especially since he felt like he wasn’t all that knowledgeable about some of the topics the QB was talking about. The sports media personality said he was forced to think about whether or not he was there. About his appearance.
“I often wondered, ‘If I don’t know everything about everything, do I deserve to be on this platform?'” McAfee said. “So this doesn’t happen and people don’t hate us. …Because there were nights I couldn’t sleep. I was like, ‘Maybe I’m totally messing this up.’ Yes. ”
McAfee also admitted that he was willing to allow Rodgers to say anything, knowing full well that he would get some harsh words back.
He told podcast hosts Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes that Rodgers was “cussed at in about 30 languages” because he hadn’t been vaccinated, adding that McAfee was “the worst person on the planet to be cursed at”. He said he was called “the worst human being.”
McAfee said he sought advice from Shannon Sharpe. In addition to appearing on ESPN, Shannon Sharpe is also the host of the popular podcast Club Shay Shay.
After speaking with him during Super Bowl week, he realized that he was just having a conversation with Rodgers and that the audience “completely knew him in real time.”
“I think we just have different programming styles,” McAfee concluded. “We’re conversationalists. We don’t know where we’re going. There are no questions scheduled. I don’t prepare anyone for when they come. I don’t have a list of questions. Just having conversations with people, but it certainly got us into some topics.
“But it also brought us magic.”
