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A trio fo dudes we hear too much from: Portnoy, Orlovsky and McAfee
Former Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee has reached a level of fame where people have stopped telling him “No,” as evidenced by the release of his recent country-rap album Diary of a Polarizing Figure. Even McAfee’s target demographic has been clowning on the project, except for a select view loyalists: perhaps most notably Dan Orlovsky.
Dan Orlovsky has never been known for his taste. He’s got the palette of an eight-year-old and the wardrobe of a substitute social studies teacher. Thus, his apparent appreciation for Pat McAfee’s music shouldn’t be all that surprising.
Still, it was the effusiveness of his praise that caused Orlovsky go viral, as he declared that the album is “legit good good,” while also quoting one of McAfee’s lyrics in a separate tweet.
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— X (@Notcazteeezy) August 14, 2026
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— Erik Peterson (@JackThiccolson) August 14, 2026
Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy called Dan Orlovsky the “biggest joke” for his praise of Pat McAfee’s “horrible” album
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy — who is essentially the Oppenheimer of McAfee’s sports media ubiquity as he was the first outlet to hire the former Indianapolis Colts punter — weighed in on both McAfee’s album and Orlovsky’s reaction on Monday, calling the latter the “biggest joke” of the whole situation.
“Pat McAfee obviously came out with his album; it’s created quite the emotion. And listen, the guy can do whatever he wants to do. Did I think it was good? No. I thought it was horrible,” Portnoy said.
“McAfee made the album, fine. He wants to make music, he wants to autotune, he wants to do whatever. But for Dan Orlovsky to tweet, ‘this album is good good,’ not ironically, and become actually the bigger joke of the entire thing,” he continued.
“You can’t do the double-good. If I do something horrific and Barstool employees want to bow down and kiss my butt, fine. But when something is just clearly not ‘good good,’ you can’t be it’s ‘good good.’ He became the biggest joke of the whole thing. I don’t know if he knows it, [but] that will follow him forever. Dan ‘Good Good’ Orlovsky.”
“You can’t do the double good… He became the biggest joke of the whole thing… Dan “Good Good” Orlovsky, that’s his new nickname. Just a shocking tweet.” – @stoolpresidente https://t.co/dHXIoU7cu4 pic.twitter.com/mzUWfqdGRw
— Wake Up Barstool (@wakeupbarstool) August 17, 2026
It’s certainly surprising to see Portnoy rip on McAfee’s album given that his recently released memoir, Cancel Me If You Can, is practically thematically and spiritually identical to Diary of a Polarizing Figure, as they’re both the musings of multimillionaire white dudes in their 40s who’re consumed with being cultural edge-lords.
Orlovsky was one of a few ESPN employees to publicly praise McAfee’s album, leading to conspiracy theories that the network was telling them to do so.