Aaron Rodgers is reported to have turned ‘Pat McAfee Show’ into an $85 million ESPN disaster after he became mad over ABC’s Kimmel making fun of him regarding his anti-COVID-19 vaccine stance. Rodgers hit back hard by claiming that Kimmel doesn’t want Jeffrey Epstein’s list to come out.
Pat McAfee’s contract with ESPN is probably the best contract ever signed by a media person in the limelight. The contract is in Pat’s favor hence not giving a hoot about the naysayers.
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ESPN pays him, but he is not an employee. McAfee is not dumb.
The Rodgers segments have devolved into a middle-school lunchroom fight.
Then I wrote a column about McAfee’s ratings on TV being poor so far, which caused McAfee to call the executive directly under Pitaro and Magnus, Norby Williamson, a “rat,” somehow reasoning he was the only one in the world with the ratings information.
ESPN put out a statement this weekend, saying everything would be handled internally.
On Monday afternoon, McAfee immediately talked about it on air, saying he would not do anything differently. Monday night, Kimmel had a long rant about Rodgers on his ABC show.
And finally, on Tuesday, Rodgers went on and on about his theories on COVID and Epstein and the media and Kimmel, while taking a shot at the ESPN executive who caretakes the McAfee show, Mike Foss.
Foss had said that Rodgers’ comments about Kimmel were “dumb and factually inaccurate” so Rodgers, of course, had to respond.
You get all that? Hey, is that the bell for fifth period?
There are so many issues for ESPN to fix on a show that is in the fifth month with only 55 more scheduled to go (I’ll continue to take the Under it makes it that far).
Pat McAfee is smart looking at how he made sure his contract with ESPN was in his favor. Aaron Rodgers screwing up on the show doesn’t affect him and how he’s going to be paid by ESPN.
Rodgers won’t appear on McAfee for the rest of the NFL season. The question begs when will he come back if ever?
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