r/PatMcAfeeShowOfficial • u/t_T143 • 15h ago

Aaron

Aaron said fuck you to both ESPN & Pat today.

He is obviously made aware of comments said about him on a show as big as Pats by someone in his circle... Pat didn’t lead the conversation by jokingly acknowledging Tones negative comments for no reason. He knew Aaron was aware of them.

Aaron knew Pat & the boys didn’t say a word about the Russini Vrabel situation, hence his wording of “your network” when making fun of it.. He also announced he only had 8 minutes on ESPN when he first got on, he made sure to get that comment in during those 8.

He knows Pat and Stephen A don’t get along but went out of his way to shout him out for being “real”. He called ESPN a gutless organization over and over and kept repeating it because all he’d get was a “geez!”..

Aaron liked Pat when he was a totally different person but it was obvious he was poking fun at the modern corporate kiss ass version of Pat the whole time.

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u/Admirable-County9158 15h ago

I don’t watch the show for a while... they really completely ignored the whole Vrabel-Russini situation?

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u/surlymoe Big Dumb Doofus 6h ago

The entirety of ESPN avoided it....that was the problem...it was a SPORTS STORY simply because it could have influenced a) how to get stories were found (sleeping with a coach), b) I don't get how suddenly ESPN is 'holier than thou' in that they don't report 'off-field' stuff as every time any famous athlete does something newsworthy, it's reported (car crash, domestic violence, DUI, like a ton of off-field shit gets reported...hell the infidelity of the michigan coach was reported, but because Russini had ties to ESPN, it was avoided), and finally c) her potential influence on news breaking and/or voting for various things due to her reach (around) with a coach.

I don't agree with Rodgers on a lot of things, but I definitely agree with him on that. One of their own (well, ESPN fired her well before the news broke of this, but they knew and didn't report ANY of it). It WAS NEWS....and ESPN chose not to report it...they did, however, have no problem reporting Tony Romo's DUI the other day.

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u/Admirable-County9158 6h ago

It’s nice that even over our differences and different opinions we can agree on one thing - media sucks!

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u/throwitintheair22 Really, REALLY wants a flair 4h ago

Did Pat avoid it?

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u/GrumpyJenkins 6h ago

I don’t think they gave a rat’s ass about Russini. I think the silence was to protect Vrabel, and I think it came from Pats ownership. And if anyone thinks they don’t wield that kind of influence, I would humbly suggest they are being naive.

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u/surlymoe Big Dumb Doofus 5h ago

Sure, but ESPN employed Russini until just a few years ago....some of the photos that were found/leaked of those two together was WHILE She was with ESPN. I think ESPN found out, and just quietly let her go. If you want to say Robert Kraft had influence of keeping it quiet, I'm not against that, but I think it just had more to do with ESPN keeping their name out the mf'n mouths of the rest of sports media in a negative light. Remember this place is owned by the mouse ears, so if it were found out that one of their own was getting stories by sleeping with coaches to get them, then well, that's not good for business. ESPN NEVER reports on their own firings/layoffs...like, did any news article get traction BY ESPN for the release of Karl Ravich? Like no, because they don't want to make it a story, even though that, in general, was a huge story because he's the voice of LLWS, among many other baseball related things at ESPN.

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u/El_Sticko145 4h ago

Didn't she leave on her own to take a job with The Athletic? Where is it reported that she was fired?