ESPN Gameday and laughing
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He’s the cohost on the most listened to sports podcast in the world called pardon my take. He’s also a James Madison grad.
Tell me you’re not an AWL without telling me you’re not an AWL
Do you see the irony in inserting yourself into this, just to tell us to ignore it?
Most comedians hate doing this. Tom Segura just turned it into a joke when he does it
...so why exactly is ESPN supposedly trying to take down a guy they're actively paying $80M+ to, in exchange for him bringing tons and tons views and his content to their network? Doesn't seem to make much sense.
It's like the people that say, "I didn't read all/any of the posts, but you need to hear my take."
Maybe because they can't sell any advertising anymore and if they tank his show there is a clause that allows them out of the contract. No clue, but man am I tired of the 15 second looping of ESPN propaganda during our games. I couldn't believe it was even that way for the CFP games.
Yeah, I think they’re both finding that he’s far more polarizing and less of a slam dunk in popularity than they expected. Follow the CFB subreddit and here for about a 75% hate vs 25% like ratio. Personally I hate his schtick but I understand why others like him. I think more people moved to Fox on Saturday mornings than they expected as well.
This is exactly why ESPN may be scared…
It's not real hard to figure out. They also were going to work with PMT, which would have been a great move for them, until internal people got all pissy because they were made fun of years earlier. They'd much rather have brilliant programming like Nick Wright or whoever they have now shouting about things either disingenuously or ignorantly-you pick.
I actually really like his show but Pat is too immature to handle it.
He can't seem to finish a contract and seems to make constant impulsive decisions.
I'm guessing he wants to get back to the WWE and has to kill the ESPN obligations to do it and then we'll do this whole thing again when he gets bored there.
He can't seem to finish a contract and seems to make constant impulsive decisions.
I'm guessing he wants to get back to the WWE and has to kill the ESPN obligations to do it and then we'll do this whole thing again when he gets bored there.
I get not liking him and I don't really have an opinion. Sometimes he's funny to me and sometimes he's annoying but people may be taking their 3 hour pregame show filled with a lot of nothing a little to seriously. Full disclosure, if I'm home on a fall Saturday morning I do watch Gameday even though I know in my heart the Fox program is better.
Yeah think this will be at least 3 contracts he didn't finish:
1. Barstool
2. FanDuel
3. ESPN
Add the WWE and SiriusXM.
He just didn't burn any bridges on his way out of WWE because carnies know carnies.
This part is telling…
Since the inception of McAfee’s show on ESPN in the fall, Stephen A. Smith and “First Take” are handing McAfee a 583,000 viewer lead-in, and McAfee is maintaining just 302,000, which is a 48 percent drop.
As compared to the same window last year, which featured “SportsCenter,” McAfee is down 12 percent. On FS1, Colin Cowherd’s show has nearly beaten McAfee on some days and saw 19 percent growth from last year to average 156,000 viewers.
