Earlier this week it was reported by The New York Post that Pat McAfee was in talks with Amazon Prime to join them as a broadcaster. McAfee has now confirmed he’s ‘up to something’.
The report by The New York Post revealed that he was in talks to join Amazon Prime as part of their broadcast team for Thursday Night Football ahead of the return of the NFL season, as well as making Amazon the home of the Pat McAfee Show.
On today’s edition of the Pat McAfee Show, McAfee commented on the rumors without specifically mentioning Amazon.
“I’m trying to figure out what the best way to handle it, just the most entertaining way to go about this whole thing,” McAfee admitted. “Because everybody is being forced to follow along with this. I don’t want people to be forced to follow along with this unless they’re following along with this as a fan of ours. Now we’re getting forced into everyone else’s world as well, which I’ve never enjoyed.
Anytime I get forced into a new audience or we get forced into a new audience, it always brings a new batch of people just f*cking burying me in my Twitter timeline. It’s like ‘alright, can we get past this entire thing?’ But I guess this is the world now. We’ve just got to get used to it.
But I’m excited for everybody that’s wondering, because it feels like there’s actual interest, and there’s been a lot of very positive things texted to me from a lot people that I’ve worked with in the past, from reading all this stuff on the internet. And, who knows what’s going to happen? Who knows what’s going to happen?
There’s been a couple of ‘up to something seasons’ where we’ve been up to something, and then something pops up in the middle of ‘up to something season’ and it’s like ‘whoa whoa. Well now which news we have to break? Hey sorry, we’re going to have to delay this conversation.’
It’s a wild thing. It’s a lot of fun and we’re very lucky, and very, very thankful for everybody. And with that being said, we are up to something. Or somethings.” (Via The Pat McAfee Show H/T WrestlingInc for the transcription)
Pat McAfee recently competed at WrestleMania 38 where he defeated Austin Theory before losing to the Chairman & CEO of WWE, Vince McMahon.
As of this time there is no update about whether or not the Amazon Prime deal could impact Pat McAfee‘s WWE future.
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