re: Pat McAfee accuses certain ESPN executives of sabotaging his show

ESPN would be absolute morons to fire Pat McAfee, his show is far better than the most of the garbage arse shows on ESPN since it’s not two or three idiots trying to yell louder than the others.

Norby is the reason Dan Patrick left espn. He's a notorious asshat fore-flushing worm of a human being.

Good for Pat for calling him out publicly.

Seez McAfee is not tied down to espn. He still owns his show and can probably walk at any moment and someone else will pay for his show rights... Or he could just go back to YT full time and have sponsors. Either way, he's got Fuk you $$ now and has already walked away from a $100M+ deal and will do it with espn, too.

No matter what you think of McAfee, this is a very good thing for content creators.

Buy up the competition... ruin it... continue business as usual... all mega-companies do this

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My thoughts and link on Pat McAfee after talking to some people at ESPN, mostly talents:

•ESPN hired McAfee over Norby Williamson's head. Norby didn't want him. Pitaro and Magnus did.

•Norby is an old-school TV guy who doesn't value McAfee YouTube numbers.

•People at ESPN say Norby was behind the leak that ESPN wants to hire Colin Cowherd. Norby would prefer to replace McAfee with Cowherd. Cowherd is a bigger TV draw.

•McAfee's TV show was always going to be a struggle. Why?
Because the show before him -- Stephen A's -- is made up of a primarily black audience of NBA viewers. McAfee’s show, before ESPN, was a primarily white audience of football viewers.

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Kind of random but I felt like when McAfee retired for the Barstool gig, he got a lot of shite for passing down a few more years of a good NFL punting salary.

Dude has made that criticism look hilarious now. Props to him.

Having Aaron Rodgers on the show is enough to get him fired

McAfee retired at an all-pro level to go into media. I think he was making like $4M/yr.

Went to Barstool and they owned his show. So he left barstool to start his own and put it on YT to grow the numbers. He then struck a huge deal with Fanduel and then walked from that go to espn.

The whole time, he was also doing espn CFB color and WWE wrestling/announcing.

Apparently McAfee was not from a very well off family and said his only goal is to make as much money as he can as quickly as he can so his kids never have to worry about finances.

He will go wherever he can make the most and if that is not espn, then he'll go somehere else.

I bet he stays in the game about 10 more years and then retires when his kids get into sports. He's basically said as much after he had his first child, which was supposedly a bit unexpected.

For a guy who just retired from football like 6 years ago, he's doing better than anyone could have ever dreamed.

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Kind of random but I felt like when McAfee retired for the Barstool gig, he got a lot of shite for passing down a few more years of a good NFL punting salary.

Dude has made that criticism look hilarious now. Props to him.

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Oh absolutely. I'm not a fan at all, but I respect the hell out of what he has built for himself.

I’ve always wanted to know the real number of active or engaged people on espns daytime programming. They have to get a massive amount of their numbers from passive audiences like gyms or offices.

I don't really like Pat, but a lot of people think he has given Gameday some energy that it needed. It might also help if they made it one hour, stopped the dead/dying kids stories, and finally retire Corso.