“If someone is going to make money for us, that person is going to reap the benefit from it,” McAfee in response to a New York Post report that he pays Rodgers to be a weekly guest on his show.
An expert on journalism ethics said Pat McAfee, above, had an obligation to inform his audience members that “they’re listening to somebody whose opinion has been bought for the purposes of entertainment.” In lengthy remarks Thursday on his ESPN-platformed show, Pat McAfee defended his practice of paying Aaron Rodgers “handsomely” to make regular appearances.
His discussion of the matter with co-host A.J. Hawk and other members of the “Pat McAfee Show” was sparked by the revelation in astory published earlier in the day that Rodgers doesn’t take the time to engage in weekly conversations simply because he enjoys the banter. At one point during Thursday’s on-air discussion, a cast member said that paying Rodgers was a matter of “principle,” because the Packers-turned-Jets quarterback has been “a huge part” of making the show “bigger and better.”
While the NFL career of McAfee, a two-time Pro Bowl selection who punted for the Colts from 2009 to 2016, overlapped with that of Rodgers, they have both said their personal relationship did not burgeon until 2019, when they were on a golf trip together. In an appearance last year on ESPN’s “ManningCast,” Rodgershe invited McAfee to join his group at the behest of Hawk, a former Green Bay Packers linebacker who became close friends with Rodgers while they were teammates from 2006 to 2014.
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