Pat McAfee recently announced that he will not be doing his annual ‘Draft Spectacular’ show in Green Bay next month as part of the NFL Draft, and now he has explained that decision further.
It turns out that the middle management of the NFL made it very difficult for him to make the necessary arrangements to broadcast from the event.
Speaking on the ‘Pat McAfee Show’ on Thursday, the media personality said that his anger is more with how the NFL treats him as a whole, rather than just the combine.
“I do appreciate that becoming a massive story on the internet,” McAfee said Thursday. “Because I was just kinda telling our people, like, ‘Hey, we’re not going.’ And then I’m being very transparent about the reason why.”
“It’s not just the insufficient respect – which I’ve never said in my life – at the combine,” McAfee insisted.
“It’s basically the overall relationship. People don’t know, I have paid the NFL millions and millions of dollars for years, so that I can get rights and social media rights and digital rights for highlights and plays for our show.”
McAfee’s relationship with the NFL
It was three years ago that McAfee revealed he pays the NFL over $4 million for the right to air game highlights.
“I have had a business partnership with the NFL, both through the NFL Films and the NFL for years and years and years,” McAfee said. “But nobody has told these middle managers, ‘Hey, just cause he’s younger than you and you think he’s a (expletive) doesn’t mean…’ Combine was the most ridiculous.
“But it’s not just the combine. It is a totality of this thing. So I don’t appreciate it being reported as ‘insufficient respect at the combine.’ It’s like, insufficient respect throughout all of this sh*t is the reason, including the draft.”
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