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Pat McAfee is not a fan of ESPN using hosts to promote their campaign against YouTube TV.
For the past week, the most prominent names at ESPN, including Stephen A. Smith and Kirk Herbstreit, have told fans to visit a website to complain to YouTube TV amid their dispute over carriage fees.
YouTube TV customers: go to https://t.co/thEUtGNysz now to get ESPN back so you can watch College GameDay and all of this weekend’s CFB matchups on ESPN and ABC. pic.twitter.com/hsRUFmMgfT
— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) November 1, 2025
During his show on Tuesday, McAfee blasted ESPN hosts who have inserted themselves into the dispute with YouTube TV.
“We’re all done with it, And also, if you’re on TV, stop telling people to go to a website to save a multi-billion-dollar deal. Nobody cares what you have to say. There will be nothing that we have to say or any website that will be visited. There are, I don’t want to say the exact names, but these people (hands up high), let’s put our swords down. Let’s put our swords down for the good of sports.
“We need each other. A lot of people saying ‘greedy corporations,’ it’s like, yeah. We need each other, especially with where sports are right now. And we’re in the middle of it, so let’s get it done. And stop asking me to go to a website. I don’t want to do that, so stop … all you’re doing is pissing everybody off even more. So it’s like, let’s just not do that.”
It seems McAfee was also fed up with the entire ESPN/YouTube TV drama.
“We need to be able to access this sh*t easily,” McAfee said Tuesday on The Pat McAfee Show. “And also, sports are a unifier, man. Come on. We don’t want to hear about business bullsh–.”