Is Pat McAfee going to be the next Sylvester Stallone?<\/p>\n
One Hollywood agent is pushing for it. Stallone, known for iconic movie roles like “Rocky” and “Rambo,” is one of the most successful action movie stars of all-time. McAfee, a former NFL<\/a> punter turned sports media personality, is starting to venture in the acting world.<\/p>\n McAfee had a role on Stallone’s “Tulsa King” show and he’s reportedly eyeing some major movie and TV show roles moving forward.<\/p>\n According to Bloomberg<\/a>, McAfee recently signed with superagent Ari Emanuel, who wants to turn him into “the next Sylvester Stallone.”<\/p>\n McAfee has also landed a part in “The Mosquito Bowl,” which is a sports drama based on the book by Buzz Bissinger, who is the author of the famed “Friday Night Lights.”<\/p>\n But is McAfee really going to be the “next Sylvester Stallone” – fans are skeptical.<\/p>\n NFL fans skeptical of McAfee’s Hollywood plans<\/p>\n “We have collectively lost the plot as a country,” one fan wrote.<\/p>\n “Lets get serious please,” one fan added.<\/p>\n “Anyone else tired of Pat McAfee?” one fan added.<\/p>\n “Maybe he can be the next Stallone in the sense he barely speaks eligible English but I don\u2019t know about movie star \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 guest appearances sure but 0% chance that latter happens,” one fan added.<\/p>\n “We are about to reach never before seen levels of overexposure,” one fan added.<\/p>\n It feels like a major stretch, right?<\/p>\n This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on Feb 20, 2026, where it first appeared in the NFL<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Pat McAfee going to be the next Sylvester Stallone? One Hollywood agent is pushing for it. Stallone,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[58897,196207,49,48,514,68936,82,24774],"class_list":["post-487329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ari-emanuel","tag-buzz-bissinger","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-pat-mcafee","tag-sports","tag-sylvester-stallone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}