{"id":167456,"date":"2026-04-16T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:38:14","slug":"the-penguins-and-flyers-are-meeting-in-the-stanley-cup-playoffs-pat-mcafee-and-gov-shapiro-made-a-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167456\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penguins and Flyers are meeting in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Pat McAfee and Gov. Shapiro made a bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers are both back in the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a few years away, and they&#8217;ll be one another&#8217;s opponent in the first round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Battle of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth Cold War, the Keystone Clash, whatever you call it, it&#8217;s an event worth celebrating, and for many, betting on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That extended to Pittsburgh native and ESPN personality Pat McAfee and Pennsylvania Governor, and Philadelphia area native, Josh Shapiro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McAfee grew up just outside of the city in Plum Borough, and Governor Shapiro grew up in Montgomery County, just outside of Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on McAfee&#8217;s show on Tuesday to announce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/ufc-330-philadelphia-august-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the return of UFC<\/a> to Philadelphia, they did take some time out to talk about the first-round matchup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THAT&#8217;S A BET <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorShapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@GovernorShapiro<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Penguins are gonna SMACK ARAHND the Flyers <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">#PMSLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zLpbqxzi1t\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zLpbqxzi1t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/2044113684989931523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited for the Flyers and Pens, but I&#8217;m a Flyers fan,&#8221; Governor Shapiro said to McAfee. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Philly sports fan, I&#8217;m honest about it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once the governor made the admission to being a fan of the black and orange, McAfee, ever the Yinzer, decided to put some more stakes on Penguins-Flyers than just a trip to the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bet between McAfee and Governor Shapiro is this: if the Flyers win, McAfee will have to wear a suit on his ESPN show. Should the Penguins win, Governor Shapiro will have to wear a tank top to work for a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deal,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;But I&#8217;m not doing what you did with Aaron Donald, where you just tore off your shirt, I&#8217;m not doing that.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Aaron Donald shows up, you&#8217;re going to have to play the part, pal,&#8221; McAfee quipped back with a laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Stanley Cup Playoffs are scheduled to start this weekend in Pittsburgh, but the dates and times for the series have not yet been announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers are both back in the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a few years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,4845,73,75,74,1067,62043],"class_list":["post-167456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}