ESPN's Pat McAfee takes aim at sports media, claims his show was subjected to 'mischaracterizations'

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Former NFL punter and current "The Pat McAfee Show" host did not hold back when he expressed his angst with some members of the sports media world.

The ESPN personality directly called out some of the outlets and media members who he had an issue with, accusing them of grossly mischaracterizing his daily sports talk show. McAfee made the accusations during the annual media day for "The Worldwide Leaders in Sports." 

McAfee was sitting on a panel with other prominent ESPN hosts, when a question appeared to rub him the wrong way.

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Pat McAfee is seen on the field prior to the game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Georgia Bulldogs in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 31, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

A reporter asked whether the commentator spoke with his peers about "journalistic standards" since he made the leap from YouTube to ESPN. McAfee initially pushed the reporter to provide more clarity on his meaning of "journalistic standards" before ripping the sports media landscape.

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"Sports media has never been wrong before? Did we have doctors on set during all of COVID on ESPN? How did that all go?" McAfee asked. "So whenever you talk about these journalistic standards, was that at journalism school…we break news I think every other day on our show that would be nowhere else. Is that journalism, getting people to open up and chit-chat and talk and expand about who they are, is that journalism, interviewing people that