by Thinus Ferreira
The conspiracy-theory-prone podcaster Pat McAfee is now lashing out at his ESPN boss, using ESPN's (DStv 218 / StarSat 248) own airwaves to do so, claiming on ESPN that vice president Norby Williamson is allegedly trying to "sabotage us from within ESPN".
The Pat McAfee show runs on YouTube but has been licensed by The Walt Disney Company's ESPN for millions of dollars in a 5-year contract to carry the low-quality podcast on ESPN as well.
On Friday's episode of The Pat McAfee Show, the former NFL player suddenly lashed out at ESPN itself and specifically ESPN boss, Norby Williamson, ESPN's executive vice president of studio and event promotion.
In yet another unproven rant, Pat McAfee said "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 programme. I’m not 100% 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. Are we just gonna combat that from a rat every time? I don’t know."
Pat McAfee's outburst came after this report in The New York Post about the ESPN show's dismal viewership on the pay-TV channel.
The New York Post story happened after Pat McAfee had a contributor on his show on ESPN last week - Aaron Rodgers - who wrongly claimed as yet another conspiracy theory that the ABC network comedian Jimmy Kimmel was linked to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Pat McAfee also pays Aaron Rodgers to be on The Pat McAfee Show.
"Somebody tried to get ahead of our actual ratings release with wrong numbers 12 hours beforehand," Pat McAfee said in Friday's edition of his show.
"That's a sabotage attempt, and it’s been happening basically this entire season from some people who didn’t necessarily love the old addition of The Pat McAfee Show to the ESPN family. There's a lot of those."
"So, even with the enemy within our own camp - I don't like that guy. That guy left me in his office for 45 minutes; no-showed me in 2018."
"So, this guy has had zero respect for me and in return, same thing back to him for a long time."
Bizarrely, neither Disney or ESPN are responding to requests for comment from the media about Pat McAfee and his show and still just remaining silent.
Disney and ESPN so far have been unwilling to make any statements about someone on ESPN attacking Jimmy Kimmel - meaning that one part of Disney is smearing another - and that someone on ESPN is attacking one of the bosses of ESPN on ESPN's own airwaves.
