The conversation around Pat McAfee subtly teasing the potential end of his popular kicking contest on College GameDay\u00a0is officially off the rails.<\/p>\n
Awful Announcing initially noted that during last Saturday\u2019s contest in College Station<\/a>, McAfee said it could be the final edition of the weekly segment. Mentioned in passing, we acknowledged the comments may have been throwaways, or simply an allusion to a reimagined version next season.<\/p>\n McAfee did not expand on his comments until Christmas Eve, when he was prompted by weekly Pat McAfee Show guest J.J. Watt.<\/p>\n At Watt\u2019s prodding, McAfee addressed a follow-up report from Front Office Sports<\/a> in which an unnamed industry source took a swing at McAfee with a profane quote.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would make absolutely no business sense. That\u2019s for sure. They had the Corso thing for almost four decades. This is a similar deal. It\u2019s a main attraction for the show,\u201d an anonymous source told FOS. \u201cIt has a benevolent quality to it because a lot of money goes to charity. So everybody is really proud of that. Now if Pat, all of a sudden, is saying, \u2018I\u2019m in the poorhouse because I gave away 2 million bucks,\u2019 well that\u2019s his fucking problem for making bets his ass can\u2019t cash. Still, he gives a lot of money away. It\u2019s a fantastic segment every week.\u201d<\/p>\n On Wednesday\u2019s show, McAfee elaborated on his efforts to give back and the future of the\u00a0GameDay kicking contest while once again accusing<\/a> ESPN executives of being out to get him \u2014 all while revealing another soon-to-be-released musical track.<\/p>\n \u201cThese people are just so f*cking blinded by [hate], it\u2019s an absurd thing,\u201d McAfee said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut on that note, we just had a $1.5 million kick in front of 110,000 people, I don\u2019t know what else we can (do). I mean, who knows what\u00a0College GameDay looks like next year? There are so many different variables to it.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I\u2019m not somebody, I think people know this \u2026 we don\u2019t really stick with a lot of things. Get bored with things. It\u2019s not like, \u2018Hey, we found something, let\u2019s do this forever.\u2019 So me hinting that this might be the end of the series, what if something else comes up? What if it doesn\u2019t happen? There are so many things to it. But also, saying that it\u2019s bad business sense to do away with it, it\u2019s like okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Throughout the conversation, which Watt started shortly after the televised portion of McAfee\u2019s show ended, it was the CBS Sports NFL commentator who seemed even more frustrated with the anonymous comments.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever heard in my life,\u201d Watt said. \u201cYou want to know what\u2019s \u2018bad business sense,\u2019 is giving away millions of dollars that you earned. This is the most charitable, philanthropic thing you could possibly do.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to sit here and anonymously give quotes to this little article, and you\u2019re going to have an entire article written about a guy giving millions of dollars to charity like that\u2019s a problem? That\u2019s a problem? With everything that\u2019s going on right, you want to attack something, and you\u2019re going to attack somebody giving away money to charity by a kid kicking a ball through a pole? Like, come on now. What are we talking about? There\u2019s so much negative sh*t in this world to attack. And we\u2019re going to attack giving money to charity? Get the f*ck out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n McAfee thanked Watt for going to bat for him on the report, which he otherwise seemed like he might ignore on his show. Once the conversation began, however, McAfee noted that he gave away millions more at this spring\u2019s Big Night Aht live show in Pittsburgh. And while McAfee acknowledged that the money is not coming directly out of his pockets (but rather from his company\u2019s coffers<\/a>), he said he aspires to approach his career like the legendary Robin Hood.<\/p>\n McAfee then revealed the forthcoming release of a new song, a sequel to his surprisingly successful<\/a> diss track<\/a> \u201cDookie,\u201d which he said will go deep on his views of the world and his enemies.<\/p>\n Calling it \u201cvery fascinating\u201d how much hate he receives, McAfee took aim at ESPN leadership, suggesting that the anonymous quote published by FOS came from Bristol.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought we were joining a team,\u201d McAfee said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I expected the inner, anti-us thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the course of several moments with Watt, McAfee also acknowledged multiple times that he plans to explore all avenues with the kicking contest. The live, in-stadium performance at Kyle Field could ultimately be a taste of what\u2019s to come rather than a grand finale.<\/p>\n