ESPN’s Pat McAfee issue is getting more madecomplex.
On Friday, the host and previous NFL punter openly assaulted longtime ESPN executive Norby Williamson, implicating him of “actively attempting to sabotage” him by dripping info to pressreporters.
The New York Post reported on McAfee’s reasonably low scores Thursday, keepinginmind “since the creation of McAfee’s program on ESPN in the fall, Stephen A. Smith and ‘First Take’ are handing McAfee a 583,000 audience lead-in, and McAfee is keeping simply 302,000, which is a 48% drop.”
McAfee indicated Williamson might haveactually dripped the concept for the story to New York Post pressreporter Andrew Marchand. Marchand decreased to remark.
“I think Norby WIlliamson is the guy who is trying to sabotage our program,” McAfee stated. “I’m not 100% sure. That is simply relatively the just human that has info and then insomeway that details gets dripped, and it’s incorrect.”
McAfee didn’t particularly state what info was incorrect. Over the years, other ESPN skill have hypothesized that Williamson hasactually dripped personal information, consistingof agreement info, according to individuals familiar with the matter. On Friday, previous ESPN reporter Jemele Hill published on social media platform X “I can relate” with regard to McAfee’s remarks about Williamson.
There’s no proof Williamson hasactually dripped info. Williamson, who has worked for ESPN for almost 40 years, decreased to remark through an ESPN representative.
There’s likewise a contingent of ESPN staffmembers who haveactually whined about McAfee’s program and his big agreement. McAfee signed a five-year, $85 million agreement with ESPN in May.
ESPN management worths the value of both McAfee and Williamson and is looking into the information of why McAfee denigrated an executive, according to a individual familiar with the matter. There is no prepared suspension for McAfee, and ESPN hopes