Pat McAfee shares devastating news of father-in-law's 'unexpected' death

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Former NFL player and ESPN host Pat McAfee shared the devastating news on Tuesday that his father-in-law, Bob, unexpectedly passed this week after previously being hospitalized with an infection.  

During Tuesday’s broadcast of "The Pat McAfee Show," the former Indianapolis Colts kicker revealed that his father-in-law had been hospitalized in Indiana where he had been "fighting an infection." 

Samantha McAfee and Pat McAfee attend the 2023 ESPYs Awards at the Dolby Theatre on July 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California.  (David Livingston/FilmMagic)

He explained that the family was told by doctors on Friday that Bob would be discharged on Sunday, but on Monday, McAfee said the family was "blindsided" by the sudden turn in his condition.  

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"Yesterday was a day that is obviously a day that’ll be remembered forever in our family because my father-in-law passed away unexpectedly after the show ended yesterday, in a hospital here in Indianapolis, Indiana."

"We were all in high hopes with incredible optimism, and then yesterday, literally as the show was ending, my wife calls me and says that I have to get to the hospital because there had been an emergency," he continued. 

"Whenever something blindsides an entire family like that, obviously, it can be wildly devastating."

Pat McAfee talks at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center ahead of Super Bowl LVIII on February 08, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Candice Ward/Getty Images)

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