{"id":172132,"date":"2026-02-10T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:46:09","slug":"pat-mcafee-san-francisco-was-not-the-s-thole-he-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172132\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee: San Francisco was not the &#8216;s&#8211;thole&#8217; he expected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">It&#8217;s no secret that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco<\/a> has been rife with homelessness and crime in recent years, but that was tough to imagine during Super Bowl week, according to Pat McAfee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Granted, the big game was about an hour southeast in Santa Clara, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/news-events\/super-bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Super Bowl<\/a> fan experience and media row were right in the city at the Moscone Center, and McAfee was impressed with his surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to reiterate the fact that San Francisco was good to us out there. It&#8217;s a nice city. We&#8217;ve been walking around here miles and miles,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/espn\/pat-mcafee-san-francisco-super-bowl-aj-hawk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McAfee said on his show<\/a> Monday, adding the city was &#8220;good to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pat-mcafee-21026.jpg\" alt=\"Pat McAfee broadcasting\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Pat McAfee on the Pat McAfee Show set at the Super Bowl LX media center at the Moscone Center. (Kirby Lee\/Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>McAfee admitted he heard from the critics about his rather upscale amenities, from five-star hotels to private security through &#8220;the backstage of a convention center,&#8221; which could lead to a positive perception automatically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that could be my life, and it sounds pretty sick, actually. But\u2026we walked that s&#8211;t,&#8221; McAfee said. &#8220;We were all over that place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Granted, it was just our area. I assume there are s&#8212;-y areas. I mean, it is a city. I think that kind of happens in most cities. But the part we were at was very nice,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee admitted that he actually expected San Francisco to be a &#8220;s&#8212;hole,&#8221; as he had heard it was once a &#8220;dump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was actually planning on leading off the show\u2026 &#8216;Can&#8217;t wait to have to tell the truth about San Francisco if it is not great,'&#8221; McAfee added.<\/p>\n<p>49ers stars Christian McCaffrey, Brock Purdy, and Fred Warner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/49ers-star-praise-san-francisco-bay-area-hosts-super-bowl-so-much-offer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">praised the city<\/a> to Fox News Digital during media week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a historic city with so much character. The food, the hills, the homes, the water, the bridge, the whole thing. It&#8217;s just such a great city, too, and it&#8217;s really cool to see it come to life even more than it already is,&#8221; McCaffrey said.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770745569_466_san-fran-fans-2726.jpg\" alt=\"Fans in San Fran\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>NFL fans walk outside the Super Bowl Experience at Moscone Center on Feb. 6, 2026, in San Francisco, California. \u00a0 (Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/49ers-keion-white-suffers-non-life-threatening-ankle-wound-san-francisco-shooting-after-super-bowl-lx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">49ERS&#8217; KEION WHITE SUFFERS NON-LIFE-THREATENING ANKLE WOUND IN SAN FRANCISCO SHOOTING AFTER SUPER BOWL LX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man, I think San Francisco has so much to offer,&#8221; the quarterback Purdy added. &#8220;Just, obviously, with the restaurants, the experiences, just how pretty it is out here with the Golden Gate Bridge and the ocean. It&#8217;s a great city, great people. So to have the Super Bowl out here is really cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Warner revelled in the fact that the city is a &#8220;melting pot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just all the different cultures mixing, all the diversity and mixing together,&#8221; Warner said. &#8220;You can get a little bit of everything that you&#8217;re looking for out here, and of course, playing in the greatest stadium in the entire NFL, Levi&#8217;s Stadium, you can&#8217;t beat it, and so I think it&#8217;s gonna be a great Super Bowl Sunday and a great week as well with all the different activities that they got planned for everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/buster-posey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buster Posey<\/a>, the hometown Giants&#8217; president of baseball operations and former catcher, said players and their wives have a negative perception of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something I think is noteworthy, something that unfortunately keeps popping up from players and even the players\u2019 wives is there\u2019s a bit of an uneasiness with the city itself, as far as the state of the city, with crime, with drugs,&#8221; Posey said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5133154\/2023\/12\/12\/giants-shohei-ohtani-offer-buster-posey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic<\/a> in 2023, adding that it affected their pursuit of Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether that\u2019s all completely fair or not, perception is reality. It\u2019s a frustrating cycle, I think, and not just with baseball. Baseball is secondary to life and the important things in life. But as far as a free-agent pursuit goes, I have seen that it does affect things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770745569_207_super-bowl-experience-2726.jpg\" alt=\"Super Bowl Experience\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Fans visit Moscone Center for Super Bowl Experience and fun activities in San Francisco, California, United States on Feb. 3, 2026. (Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The estimated population of San Francisco is roughly 827,000 people, the 13th-most populous city in the United States. It&#8217;s estimated, however, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/homeless-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">over 8,000 people are homeless<\/a> in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Fox News Digital\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsSports_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sports coverage on X<\/a>,\u00a0and subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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