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There was minimal blowback to Pat McAfee slurring Caitlin Clark, albeit in oddly complimentary fashion, on his ESPN TV show Monday. McAfee apologized but didn’t mean it. That was confirmed by him humorously referencing what he had said on WWE’s “Monday Night Raw.

” The Plum native isn’t sorry about anything he says. Not one thing. He believes he’s reinvented sports broadcasting.



That’s because he has. He reinvented it and owns it. He might as well own ESPN.

He walks all over the Worldwide Leader. Not many at ESPN had more power than Norby Williamson. McAfee ran him off.

The Caitlin Clark remark is another reminder that McAfee is bulletproof. He wallows in that. He loves testing it.

McAfee is at the forefront of what podcaster Bill Simmons calls “Dukes of Hazzard live,” sports talk aimed at the lowest common denominator. (I thought I was doing that. Turns out there’s an even lower common denominator.

) McAfee’s show is aimed at the bros. They’re easy to identify. They say “bro” a lot, just like McAfee and his crew.

Most content is aimed at drawing a laugh. Most of it isn’t funny but succeeds anyway. Bros are easily amused.

McAfee’s crew are his high school buddies and ex-NFL player A.J. Hawk.

(No women.) It’s amateur hour, sometimes in a good way. Hawk is reminiscent of one of those giant silent heads on Easter Island.

They want to be friends with the athletes. Very rarely are athletes criticized. That, combined with McAfee’s cool factor, is w.

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