Pat McAfee Rips ESPN To Shreds For Giving Prince Harry Pat Tillman Award At ESPYs

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Pat McAfee is not happy with ESPN ahead of the ESPYs.

Last week, ESPN announced Prince Harry would be given the Pat Tillman Award for Service for founding the Invictus Games, “an international sporting event for wounded, injured servicemen and women.

Via ESPN

In honor of his tireless work in making a positive impact for the veteran community through the power of sport, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex will receive the Pat Tillman Award for Service, an award given to a person with a strong connection to sports who has served others in a way that echoes the legacy of the former NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger, Pat Tillman.

After serving for 10 years in the British Armed Forces, including two tours of duty in Afghanistan as a forward air controller and Apache helicopter pilot, Prince Harry founded The Invictus Games Foundation, continuing his service by creating an international platform to support wounded, injured, and sick servicemen and women – both active-duty and veterans – who are navigating both physical and invisible injuries

During Friday’s edition of the Pat McAfee Show, McAfee openly ripped ESPN for honoring Harry with the Pat Tillman Award.

“A lot of conversation about Pat Tillman’s name. American hero…Now there’s an award named after him, as there should be in the sports world because that is somebody who is the definition of selfless. It’s going to Prince Harry. Who I don’t even think is a prince anymore. See, why does the ESPYs do this sh–?”

“When you do something like this, you know the immediate reaction from humans and from sports fans and from people with common sense and brains, is gonna be like ‘Hey, don’t be putting our f’n guy with that guy.,”