Pat McAfee Admits To Paying “Millions” To Aaron Rodgers For Weekly Interviews
“Aaron Rodgers Tuesdays” and “Nick Saban Thursdays” have become program and sports media standards. But there’s a secret sauce that makes it all work: McAfee pays millions to secure these interviews, according to The Washington Post.
Pat McAfee Admits To Paying “Millions” To Aaron Rodgers For Weekly Interviews
According to insiders, Rodgers gets paid more than seven figures a year to appear on the McAfee show each week, while Saban is in the same ballpark.
𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧: The New York post is reporting that Pat McAfee pays #Jets QB Aaron Rodgers “millions” of dollars to appear on the show for interviews.
McAfee cuts into his five-year deal for around $85 million from ESPN to pay people that help the business.
He confirmed that… pic.twitter.com/QZVvt3YHmi
— JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) October 12, 2023
Controversial The host of ESPN’s Pat McAfee Show, Pat McAfee, confirmed to the New York Post that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers has pocketed more than $1 million for his weekly appearances, revealing for the first time Rodgers receives compensation for his spots perhaps best known for his misleading musings on Covid-19 vaccine safety and treatment.
According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, Pat McAfee has paid Rodgers “millions” to appear on the show on a weekly basis during the season.
JK Dobbins, also rehabbing his Achilles, walks in on Aaron Rodgers talking to Pat McAfee and gives him sh*t 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/C3ApZlJvuH
— Kyle (@ImKyleMangum) October 10, 2023
Marchand adds that Rodgers “receives more than seven figures per year to appear on the show each week.”” McAfee told Marchand that Rodgers “has made over $1,000,000 with us, for sure.”
The funds appear to be derived from the worldwide fee paid by ESPN to McAfee for the broadcast rights to his show. According to reports, the entire amount is around $17 million each year for five years.
"That makes total sense to me"@AndrewBrandt gives his thoughts on the reports about Aaron Rodgers receiving over $1 million from his Pat McAfee appearances: pic.twitter.com/CCA38wtrTP
— Ross Tucker Podcast (@RossTuckerPod) October 12, 2023
According to Forbes, Rodgers is the 28th-highest-paid athlete in the world, and he has undoubtedly made the most noise on the Pat McAfee Show by utilizing it to disseminate his Covid views.
Rodgers revealed on the Pat McAfee Show in 2021 for the first time that he had not been vaccinated against Covid and that he used ivermectin to treat his infection, a medicine not licensed to treat Covid and deemed potentially harmful by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Aaron Rodgers calls Travis Kelce “Mr. Pfizer” on The Pat McAfee Show 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/xhPgppyPHr
— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) October 3, 2023
Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith are most likely the network’s two most prominent characters. In addition to McAfee’s daily show, which is licensed to ESPN from noon to 2 p.m., McAfee is now the focus of ESPN’s iconic “College GameDay,” even raising the stakes in recent weeks during a battle with Washington State due to a misunderstanding about what octogenarian GameDay legend Lee Corso said.
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It is too early to tell if everything is working out for ESPN. McAfee is doing well on YouTube and social media platforms such as TikTok. However, his linear statistics on ESPN aren’t off to a great start, with 276,000 viewers in the first three weeks, owing to the loss of most of the lead-in from “First Take.”
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