Pat McAfee offers sobering reminder after Ryan Mallett's death: 'Let’s try to enjoy every f---ing day'

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Pat McAfee was among those who remembered the late Ryan Mallett on Wednesday, as the former punter-turned-radio host told a story about one of their outings.

McAfee said on his radio show he recalled meeting Mallett a few times, and on one of the nights they spent together, that he and golfer John Daly "sung a song together." Mallett was a standout quarterback at Arkansas as Daly was also a Razorbacks golfer earlier in his life.

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ESPN announcer Pat McAfee during the Georgia Bulldogs game versus the TCU Horned Frogs in the College Football Playoff National Championship game on Jan. 9, 2023, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Mallett was among those on a sandbar off the coast of a beach in Florida, but as the group tried to swim back, officials said Mallett went under. Lifeguards pulled him out of the water but could not resuscitate him.

"I assume that nobody thought whenever they went to the beach yesterday, and got in the ocean, that they were gonna come back with one less person," McAfee said.

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Ryan Mallett, #15 of the Baltimore Ravens, warming up before a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints at Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Aug. 31, 2017 in New Orleans. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)

"So remember that, whenever you wake up, that you had a chance to wake up. I think we all kind of need these types of things to happen, because when these things happen, it opens our eyes a bit to the petty bulls--- or negative