Pat McAfee admits he had 'sleepless nights' after Aaron Rodgers 'started a war' with Jimmy Kimmel

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Pat McAfee has become one of the most infamous figures in sports media today.

He inked a five-year, $85 million deal with ESPN last year so the network could broadcast his daily show, parlayed into becoming a "College GameDay" analyst.

But it's his show, McAfee admits, where he has gotten into "some s--t."

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Jimmy Kimmel and Aaron Rodgers' feud went to the next level. (Getty Images)

Aaron Rodgers has long been a guest on the show, and it's where the four-time MVP has turned plenty of heads.

The four-time MVP made plenty waves when picking fights with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Travis Kelce, and Keith Olbermann about COVID-19 vaccines, but the show gained notoriety when Rodgers took it a step further with his quip about Jimmy Kimmel and Jeffrey Epstein.

"People were thinking we're gonna get kicked off ESPN this year already. People were already assuming that it's not gonna work, it's not gonna last, because Aaron started a war with Jimmy Kimmel on our show," McAfee told the "All The Smoke" podcast with former NBA stars Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. "Jimmy Kimmel obviously ABC, all the COVID stuff, calling out Fauci on our show, there was a lot. The block got real hot for about three weeks."

McAfee, of course, was referencing when Rodgers said Kimmel should be "hoping" that the Epstein client list wouldn't come out - the consensus was that Rodgers had insinuated that Kimmel would be on the list, but Rodgers denied that was the case.

McAfee didn't exactly do himself any favors when he said that a high-ranking ESPN executive was "sabotaging" his show and was "canceled by both parties." But in