After Seeing Pat McAfee’s Apology for His Larry Nassar Tweet, He Definitely Needs To Learn How To Apologize

Pat McAfee is a professional wrestler, former color commentator for professional wrestling, and former punter and kickoff specialist for football. McAfee contributes as an analyst to the college football-focused television show College GameDay on ESPN.

He played in the Super Bowl his first season, losing to the New Orleans Saints, and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL Draft as a placekicker out of West Virginia. McAfee played in the NFL for eight years, making two Pro Bowls and an All-Pro in 2014.

 

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McAfee has worked as a football analyst since he stopped playing football in February 2017. Prior to being confirmed as a member of ESPN’s Thursday Night College Football team in July 2019, he served as a guest host for Fox Sports’ college and NFL broadcasts in late 2018. In addition, he makes regular appearances for Get Up!. Presenting The Pat McAfee Show at the moment on YouTube. His program will appear on ESPN, ESPN+, and ESPN’s YouTube channel in the autumn of 2023.

 

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Before agreeing to a deal with the organization in February 2019, McAfee provided commentary for WWE’s NXT TakeOver events in 2018. He engaged in a feud with Adam Cole in 2020, losing to Cole at TakeOver XXX while making his WWE NXT ring debut.

The Twitter controversy of Pat McAfee

 

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Pat McAfee, a prominent figure in the sports industry and a future ESPN broadcaster, came under fire from the Twitter mob after posting a message that referenced Larry Nassar.

An image of awful vintage Michigan State football uniforms was released online by one of McAfee’s producers, Evan Fox, to establish the atmosphere. Former student Fox of Michigan State said: “I still can’t believe Michigan State thought it was ok to roll out these uniforms.”

To the tweet, McAfee replied, “I think Nassar was in on the design team actually.”

Naturally, that started a firestorm. The angry mob yelled, “How could you invoke Larry Nassar when talking about something like football uniforms?!”

Nassar was used by McAfee to punctuate a joke that he was making. On the Internet in 2023, however, there is no place for context or complexity.

As is customary for Pat McAfee, he responded to the criticism on his show on Monday.

He apologized in a way that he generally does not. However, rather than saying “I’m sorry I did it,” it was one of those “sorry if you got offended” apologies. That’s still good news, so. However, apologizing to the angry mob in any way just shows weakness.

McAfee tweeted his comment from Monday’s broadcast with the title “It got loud on the Internet yesterday.”

“There is an all-out onslaught against me right now for simply linking one terrible thing from a school with the most terrible thing from the school … talking sh*t to a friend,” McAfee begins.

“I do apologize if some people took that in a different way and then spun it in their own narrative to offend a bunch of other people … I was simply talking sh*t to my friend.”

Larry Nassar’s tweet was partially apologized for by Pat McAfee, which also explains why he first sent it.

Then McAfee goes on to claim that certain people want to silence him for bringing out the fact that Michigan State tolerated Larry Nassar abusing gymnasts for 14 years.

 

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He then makes a U-turn and claims that he didn’t think about removing the tweet or apologizing.

“People [were saying] ‘you need to delete this and apologize.’ I’m like ‘uh … why?’ I’m talking shit to my friend about something that definitely happened at his school,” McAfee said.

“We need to tell people that there’s disgusting, horrible people in powerful positions. This isn’t something that’s just like ‘hey, we can’t talk about this,’” he continued.

Then he “apologised” once more, albeit extremely sarcastically this time.

“I do apologize to everybody that just took my six word tweet and then said that I was disrespecting this and not thinking about the victims. What?! I think we’re thinking about the victims … by reminding people that this motherf***er had a lot of power at Michigan State for a long time while being a terrible human being.

“It was an eye-opener, though,” McAfee finished his statement by saying this.

It appears that McAfee is aware that the ESPN arrangement will make him more visible and, thus, subject him to more scrutiny and criticism.

Wait until the executives hear his ‘Global Boiling’ thoughts before judging ESPN’s reaction to McAfee’s Nassar tweet.

Instead of changing his show or the themes he covers as a result of his “eye-opening” experience, McAfee chose to make fun of climate change on the same show.

 

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ESPN will likely be much less pleased to hear him discuss that subject than Larry Nassar. ESPN needs to promote the global warming and “climate crisis” narrative if they want to stay in the cool kids club. ESPN is turning left.

However, Pat McAfee doesn’t seem to give a damn about that. He shouldn’t, too.

 

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He makes light of the terminology change from global warming to global boiling with his colleagues.

To be completely honest, I was unaware of the “global boiling” modification. That might imply that my appointment will also be cancelled. But when I searched for “Global Boiling” on Google, news stories from the Washington Post, CBS News, The Guardian, and other publications appeared right away.

This was made fun of by McAfee, as he should.

McAfee remarks mockingly, “The sun’s real hot.”

McAfee riled up the Twitter mob twice in the last two days over unrelated problems.

We are all aware of ESPN’s reaction to the Twitter mob attack.

How the connection between McAfee and ESPN will develop is a mystery to me.

However, I for one am eager to witness.

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