Pat McAfee is not a man to mince words. He sure didn’t miss a chance on this one. Fans are losing out on more live sports every day due to the ongoing disagreement between ESPN and YouTube TV, and they are also unable to see ESPN coverage of significant events like the NFL deadline on Tuesday.
For many people who pay a high price for a YouTube TV subscription, the main part of this conflict between two billion-dollar firms (Disney and Google, which own ESPN and YouTube TV) began over the weekend and eliminated an entire Saturday of college football activity. When fans, including J.J. Watt, were unable to watch the Cardinals-Cowboys game on Monday night, it definitely reached a breaking point.
Pat McAfee’s rant against ESPN
ESPN’s Pat McAfee addressed the issue on Tuesday. He had a message for some of his well-known colleagues who had posted videos discussing the conflict on social media, telling viewers to visit a website so they “don’t miss any” activity.
Regarding those mails, McAfee said the following:
“We’re all done with it. And also, if you’re on TV, stop telling people to go to a website to save a multi-billion-dollar deal. Nobody cares what you have to say. There will be nothing that we have to say or any website that will be visited. There are, I don’t want to say the exact names, but these people (hands up high), let’s put our swords down. Let’s put our swords down for the good of sports.”
“We need each other. A lot of people saying ‘greedy corporations,’ it’s like, yeah. We need each other, especially with where sports are right now. And we’re in the middle of it, so let’s get it done. And stop asking me to go to a website. I don’t want to do that, so stop… all you’re doing is pissing everybody off even more. So it’s like, let’s just not do that.”
The fans who simply want to watch the games on the service they have been paying for will continue to be the victims of this disagreement, it seems.