Pat McAfee taking show to ESPN in multimillion deal

[TOAD99]

Pat gotta come back to Wwe fukk all this

 

[Supa]

He's bringing Pac Man with him?

I don't see him lasting over there.

 

[Trav]

How the fukk does a big ass company like FD not have some language in their contract about an out or something? Lol

Gotta be more to this

 

[Remote]

Imagine being one of those ESPN sports anchors who got fired in the last 3-4 years only to see a glorified Twitch streamer catch a 10 million dollar per year salary at your old company.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Imagine being one of those ESPN sports anchors who got fired in the last 3-4 years only to see a glorified Twitch streamer catch a 10 million dollar per year salary at your old company.

Bring in viewers in the way that McaFee does and they'd still be there as well.

 

[Motife43]

So I'm going to assume that it will remain unfiltered on Youtube and then ESPN will condense it down to air on their network. That's the only thing that makes sense. Even then, with how much he curses on there, that's going to be a lot of editing.

yeah, i'm interested in how it'll look.

I've never watched the full show, just clips, but I can't see this show continuing to be the massive success without its edge and teeth.

Like I watched a clip with Pacman and he's sitting there with dip in his mouth. AJ Hawk was smoking something (hand rolled cigar?), shyt was hilarious and entertaining

 

[KneeGrow.]

I think ESPN provides the infrastructure for the ancillary stuff that Fanduel doesn't have experience with.

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

Pat gotta come back to Wwe fukk all this

that'll be interesting because you know ESPN gonna want him featured as much as Stephen A lol.

Pat has already griped about how he's trying to cut back on responsibilities, especially with him being a dad now. I don't ever see him doing WWE again full time. Not during football season for sure.

 

[Lootpack]

Terrible news. Show will be a shell of what it once was, like a lot of programming on ESPN.

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

Imagine being one of those ESPN sports anchors who got fired in the last 3-4 years only to see a glorified Twitch streamer catch a 10 million dollar per year salary at your old company.

Life changes. Trends happen. The game is the game.

 

[Legal]

How the fukk does a big ass company like FD not have some language in their contract about an out or something? Lol

Gotta be more to this

I mean, it depends on what the $120 was for in the first place, compared to the money he was actually bringing in for them. If they were covering significant portions of his production costs, and were basically just getting free promo from his show, and not any of the revenue he may or may not have been getting from YouTube, then getting out of the deal might be a net positive for them.

Imagine being one of those ESPN sports anchors who got fired in the last 3-4 years only to see a glorified Twitch streamer catch a 10 million dollar per year salary at your old company.

Steve Levy somewhere STEAMING, probably. Mans went from calling Monday Night Football, to the MNF Commentary B Team, to getting replaced by Chris Fowler on the B Team right as ESPN gets more MNF games, not even calling Stanley Cup Playoffs games (which he loves) in, and probably being asked to take a pay cut, or outright laid off in about a year.

 

[Sauce Dab]

They starving for original content

 

[Morethan1]

I've only seen a few clips of his show but man...I just want to say I'm so fukking tired of Fanduel, Draft Kings, and the nonstop infection of sports talk with betting talk. There was a time when the most bet talk you'd hear would be Al Michels making a line spread joke.. Maybe you'd hear about it on sports radio in the context of "this team is the favorite to win." Now it's nonstop, and exhausting.

fukk you and Al Michael's

 

[Box Factory]

Welp, it was a good run while it lasted

 

[Legal]

fukk you and Al Michael's

Well, damn breh.