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Sports talk show host Pat McAfee fired off insults at a top ESPN executive on his Friday show.
McAfee has been at the center of a controversy this week after show contributor and NFL legend Aaron Rodgers made a controversial comment about late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, which brought about a threat from Kimmel to sue.
But on Friday, he sent zingers in the direction of Norby Williamson, who the New York Post identified as “ESPN’s Executive Editor and Head of Event and Studio Production and a member of company president Jimmy Pitaro’s inner circle.”
“We’re very appreciative, and we understand that more people are watching this show than ever before. We’re very thankful for the ESPN folks for being very hospitable. Now, there are some people actively trying to sabotage us from within ESPN — more specifically, I believe, Norby Williamson is the guy who is attempting to sabotage our program,” McAfee said.
“I’m not 100 percent sure. That is just seemingly the only human that has information, and then somehow that information gets leaked, and it’s wrong, and then it sets a narrative of what our show is,” he said.
McAfee said there had been a culture clash when his free-wheeling show entered the Disney universe. ESPN is owned by Disney.
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