The NFL informed Pat McAfee he can no longer use team logos on his show and he went off

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The NFL’s bully tactics never cease to amaze.

No league has more rules about how its content can be used than the NFL. The No Fun League doesn’t make exceptions for anyone, not even a former player who promotes the league to a massive audience every day.

According to Pat McAfee, the league is cracking down on his use of NFL graphics on his daily YouTube show.

McAfee broke the news to his audience Monday as only he can.

“The Professional American Football League will finish its eighth week of its riveting prime-time schedule as the Cincinnati football club travels to Cleveland to take on Cleveland’s football club and a lot of people might be asking, ‘Pat, on this particular Halloween, why are you talking the way that you’re talking about the league that you’ve talked about for the last three years?’ McAfee asked. “Well, the reason I’m doing so is because even though we currently have a rights deal with the NFL that costs millions and millions of dollars, we’ve been informed this morning that we are no longer allowed to use any of their logos on any of our graphics.”

McAfee then aired a graphic for tonight’s Bengals-Browns game that looked like this:



McAfee then revealed that his show has paid more than $4 million for the rights to air NFL highlights.

He also issued this warning to the league: “It’s been great doing business with you. I’m happy we have covered your league in the way that we have for the last few years. I’m appreciative of the league and everything it’s done. I don’t think we’ve really touched on many subjects we could’ve dabbled into and I think we’ll do that this offseason, for sure. Things I know a lot about, that my friends know a lot about, like insurance and CTE [chronic traumatic encephalopathy] and concussions and everything like that. I think we can find some people to chat about, to learn more about what the NFL should be held accountable for and what they shouldn’t be held accountable for because I thought the entire deal with the NFL [cough], the Professional American Football League, I’m so sorry, that I wanted to get involved with was making the game celebrated.”

McAfee then concluded his speech with, “I wanted to celebrate everything that was the Professional American Football League. We did so in a fashion I guess we’re not supposed to even though we paid millions and millions of dollars to the league, played in the league, was a nominee to the Hall of Fame of the league, but can’t have any logos on the graphics, because obviously some lawyer in that building is a fricking dipshit.”

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