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Laura's avatar

How does this asshole still have a job?

Someone with such atrocious judgement should not have a public platform.

Ward From Cali's avatar

With all due respect, I gotta disagree that the truthfulness of the original story is immaterial. I get why Robyn says that and agree with that more. But dammit, the notion that every woman, everywhere who ever lived is automatically an amoral slut just because she exists and looks like she has a vagina is the core issue here, an even worse moral outrage than a bunch of strange men seeking to destroy her for her sexual behavior. Because it shows this isn't about her behavior at all. It's about her existence.

G-7 in Space's avatar

This guy is a Motherfucker.

Jerry G.'s avatar

Is this moron still being paid by ESPN ?? If so, why??

Kid 'n Nipple-Play's avatar

Is it true that Pat McAfee not only blows goats, but that he also fucks them? I feel like this story should be reported more often. Goats cannot give consent to humans, so it is definitely newsworthy if it is true that Pat McAfee is a goat fucker.

Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

I'm pretty sure I saw something like that on Reddit, or maybe it was 4chan or X - either way that means that it's got to be true as the internet doesn't lie.

Bagels of Doom's avatar

As for X, I feel like the dead internet theory is in effect.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Dead_Internet_theory

IOW, my god! It's full of bots!

LOU LOU's avatar

The right would take under their wing McAfee if there were any threat of consequences, but since he's done a quasi apology, not a chance .

Bonnie Fuller's avatar

Thank u for writing this. U make so many excellent points including that we are once again - thx to Trump & misogynist MAGA living in a time when it is A OK to smear women for their sexual behavior. Even if this rumor had been true , it was nobody else’s business but the people involved. Certainly not shedding light on this.

RRJKR's avatar

What "sport" was this an analysis of? Why would this bit of gossip be of any interest to a sports commentator of any of his viewers?

Steve W.'s avatar

Fuck Pat McAfee! Why do people put so much stock into 'Talking Heads'? So many Act like these guys are smart and know what they're talking about and nothing could be further from the truth. Reich wingers used to hang on every word uttered by rush limpballs during his 3 hour propaganda show. Talk about sheeple.

Howlin Wolfe's avatar

I hope MAGAgeddon suffers some real consequences, but it’s a faint hope.

skinnercitycyclist's avatar

“As a girl dad..."

Maybe I am alone in this, and I have an adult daughter, but I have always considered that a creepy locution.

Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

So as a father to a woman I guess that I that would make me a "woman dad"?

But that would bring out the incel transphobic asshats deciding that I had transitioned and things would get ugly - for them.

Free beach's avatar

I’ve never heard of this expression till now. And I wish I never had. Ew.

Dudley Didwrong's avatar

Neither had I. Nor have I talked to my daughter about it, but knowing her, if I ever used it in her (or our son's) presence they'd either laugh me out of the room or "fart in (my) general direction."

Planky Smith's avatar

Why did he keep saying her name? Seems weird.

Free beach's avatar

Go with that. It is.

3rdaughter's avatar

I’m so glad this is the first I’ve heard this story. Misogyny, pure and simple.

skinnercitycyclist's avatar

Me too (the advantage of not being on Xitter).

Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

It is difficult to verbalize how gross I find this entire episode. McAfee himself is gross beyond description. A self-aggrandizing average Joe who has been given a platform on ESPN and uses it to talk to creeps like Aaron Rodgers. And despite how frequently gross he is, they continue to raise him up. His presence at MLB's All-Star festivities was proof of that. The apologies are just a part of the show and DISNEY/ESPN are on board. Like so many others that ESPN praise to the rafters. Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, Bill Belicheck, Jim Harbaugh, Ben Roethlisberger, Ray Lewis, cheaters, rapists, and possible murderers. It's disgusting. And yet I'm addicted to the NFL. Fuck.

Dudley Didwrong's avatar

It is an addiction that can be beaten. Been there... done that, and have never regretted it. Dan Snyder was the last straw, and now Shitler, prattling on about changing the name back to the original racist moniker just adds to the decision. I have stopped watching ESPN as well as generally consist of a bunch of frantic stereotypic frat-boy fools.

Bruce's avatar

". I have stopped watching ESPN as well as generally consist of a bunch of frantic stereotypic frat-boy tools."

Yah gotta little typo in there. FIFY

We all now live (unwillingly) in an all encompassing locker room, drowning in 'locker room talk' by entitled, testosterone poisoned assholes.

Dudley Didwrong's avatar

I agree with what you say. I meant to write "fools," however. As an "olds" it is a word that is one of the worst epithets I can lay on a person or group. It is an expression of utter contempt. "Tools" works, too, as expressive of ESPN talking heads being manipulated and trying to fit in with the "good old boy" locker room bunch. "Tools," "fools," -- we're making the point.

As a digression, but relevant to the idea of "locker room talk," I want to relate an incident. A good friend, now deceased, was with the US Marines and went ashore with the first wave at Okinawa, March 1945. As his battalion moved inland the resistance grew and my friend, Jack, was practically cut in two by Japanese machine gun fire. As he was being stuffed into a body bag he moved and said something and, realizing he was still alive, the Corps medic got him back to the beach and out to a ship where he was kept alive. He eventually healed and became an educator.

Jack was an avid squash player and after a game at Bowdoin College in Maine he was showering in the locker room (he had graduated from Bowdoin before the war) when several US Navy officers who also had been playing squash came down to shower. It was during the Vietnam War and the Navy officers were discussing the anti-war movement and how stupid and traitorous the movement's people were. Jack, who never shied away from a fight or an argument, spoke up from the other end of the shower room, telling the Navy guys that they didn't know what they were talking about. They both began to badger Jack, telling him that he was, in effect, just a dumb civilian. Stark naked and still dripping wet, Jack stormed over to the two and showed them the still very-visible wounds across his chest, told them where it had happened, and told them to "shut the fuck up!" They did. Locker room talk can be answered.