Pat McAfee blasts NFL over ban of logos for his show
Former punter Pat McAfee blasted the NFL during Monday's episode of the popular show that shares his name.
"The Professional American Football League will finish the eighth week of its riveting primetime schedule as the Cincinnati football club travels to Cleveland to take on Cleveland’s football club and a lot of people might be asking, 'Pat, on this particular Halloween, why are you talking the way that you’re talking about the league that you’ve talked about for the last three years?'" McAfee said about the Cincinnati Bengals-Cleveland Browns matchup during Monday's edition of "The Pat McAfee Show," per Jenna Lemoncelli of the New York Post.
"Well, the reason I’m doing so is because even though we currently have a rights deal with the NFL that costs millions and millions of dollars, we’ve been informed this morning that we are no longer allowed to use any of their logos on any of our graphics."
McAfee has since utilized makeshift and hilariously-drawn graphics and a "PAFL" logo for his show and on social media:
McAfee also offered a not-so-veiled threat to those within the NFL making such corporate decisions.
"I don’t think we’ve really touched on many subjects we could’ve dabbled into and I think we’ll do that this offseason, for sure," McAfee explained. "Things I know a lot about, that my friends know a lot about, like insurance and CTE [chronic traumatic encephalopathy] and concussions and everything like that."
McAfee kicked for the Indianapolis Colts from 2009 through the 2016 season and was a one-time first-team All-Pro and a two-time Pro Bowl selection during his playing career. It was announced in September that McAfee was among the 129 modern-era nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2023, but the 35-year-old insisted at that time that he shouldn't be voted in because he "did not play long enough."
McAfee routinely has NFL personalities such as Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and insider Adam Schefter, among others, as guests on his program.
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