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May 29, 2025 8 mins
ESPN fraud Pat McAfee (he completely forgets to use the F word on College GameDay but uses it on his own ESPN show)...what happened to KEEPIN' IT REAL?

Flabby McAfee threw derision at prominent New York Knicks fans on the Indianapolis arena microphone ahead of the Pacers vs Knicks NBA playoffs game. He even threw some garbage language in his rant to further the notion that taking your kids to a ballgame is a skeezy proposition.

Cranky faded pop singer John Cougar Mellencamp actually made a valid point by posting to social media that McAfee's boorish behavior does not project HOOSIER HOSPITALITY.

"I was embarrassed when somebody, under whose direction I don't know, called out some of the people who had made the trip from New York (to support the Knicks)...it was poor sportsmanship...I was not proud to be a Hoosier."

Well done, Mellencamp.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It hurts so good. That's John Cougar Mellonhead. He is
a big fan of basketball when he's not being a
crabby old man. I gotta tell you, I've seen him
before in Assembly Hall in Bloomington and he just sort
of leans up against the wall watching the Indiana Hoosiers

(00:22):
play basketball. He's a big fan, and people just kind
of know to leave him alone. He's been a crabby
old man for a long time. Is he still dating
the Harry met Sally Chick? I don't think that. I
think that's over. Yeah, I think that's sort of gone
by the wayside. It may Meg Ryan, Meg Ryan, I

(00:44):
forgot about that. Yeah, well yeah, because I'm looking at
a picture he posted online here a little while ago
with a different woman, So that probably wouldn't work if
he was still with Meg Ryan. And he posted this reply.
What's he replying to? He's also an Indiana Pacers. He
was in Indianapolis the other night when Pat McAfee insulted

(01:07):
the visitors from New York, you know, the prominent people,
And of course he's got the house mic. They gave
him the house mic to just you know. He's a
host on ESPN used to play football for the Indianapolis
colt So there's some local love for him there. But
the idiot is cursing in front of the arena filled
with people, and people go, oh, you're so soft, he snowflake.

(01:30):
It's like, I don't know, can you take kids to
games and without having some guy on the pa using
the fecal matter word and the sons of the ouches
that he said on the mike. It's like, is this
really necessary? Do we have to vulgarize everything? Can't we
just have a moment go to sports? Does everything have

(01:52):
to be eminem does it? What do we have to
do that all the time? So anyway, you know, I
know a lot of people say, ooh, that's what sports
is about. You got to debase. Well they with morons
like that, don't know the word debase. You got to
you gotta clown on the other people, people wearing the

(02:13):
other jersey, and I get it. In New York, I
saw a video of people in the streets of outside
Madison Square Garden down there on thirty seconds or whatever
that is that is Penn Station pen Plaza walking out
of the arena and people throwing trash on them because
they were wearing Indiana jerseys. Well, I mean just always

(02:34):
remember this. Almost half of the population is of below
average intelligence, so you have to cater to them in
certain capacities. They like dumb things, simple things. That's just
how that goes. Notice how I said they like I'm
not one of them. But that's out is you get
rude caustic people. Caustic means abrasive. Well you probably don't

(02:59):
know what that means either. I'm just having a little
fun here, that's all. And it's just unnecessary. There are
just times where it's just can we just not have
everything be trash? Can we just not? Can we just
reach a little higher, just try to make life a
little more, just a little more delicate, a little more friendly,

(03:20):
without having to just be hateful throwing venom all the time.
Someone that stands over someone else and taunts them after
they've knocked them down or whatever. It's some sporting thing.
It's like, really, is that your best self? How about
you help the person up? You know, there's none of
that in this world. So McAfee, he's on TV, he's
on ESPN, and you're allowed to curse on there. I

(03:42):
mean they do, But it's noon it's nine am in California?
Is that necessary? But they say the F word on there.
Sometimes I'm like, really, is this where we are now?
The answer is yes, that's scumbag McAfee. Other times, like
when he gets on College Game Day on Saturday, which
someholly forgets to say the F word. He just forgot. God,
that's his favorite word to use, but he forgot. That's

(04:03):
because somebody in charge of College Game Bay said, hey,
don't say that on our show. Don't say that. This
is a family show. People are excited about the football
games of the day, so don't be But it's still
all about McAfee. When the show starts. He gets now,
he gets a five minute monologue, and all the the
guys with their hats on backwards you. They love all

(04:24):
that grown men who think they're still twelve. There's a
lot of that that goes on in our culture. So
McAfee's their hero and they love it. So McAfee gets
the mic and then debases demeans the people who are
just there who came to support their New York Knicks.
They happen to be famous people Indianapolis, Indiana. We got

(04:48):
some big wins from the big city in the building.
Spitele is here, Ben Stiller is here, Timothy Shala Man,
is it what Sunday suns up? Just step back to

(05:10):
New York? What that is? Horger? What's time burs nurse?
So that's what the intellectually bankrupt cater. They love that
sort of thing, the Pat McAfee attitude. It's like, Oh,
that really advances culture, doesn't it. Thank God? Future generations

(05:32):
look back and go, he must have been a thought leader. Yeah, no,
he's not. He's just catering to the backwards at guy
that's forty two and he still wears a jersey that's
too small for him. Oh you know who? Yeah, did
you forget your child support payment? I had good tickets
to the game, had a gamble on the gambling app.
He don't pay my child support when they catch me?

(05:56):
That kind of guy. John Cougar mellonhead answers on social
media today like this. The Knicks Pacers games have been
very entertaining for anyone who likes basketball or sports. I
attended Game four in Indianapolis. Who's your hospitality? He puts
in quote marks, I was embarrassed when somebody under whose

(06:18):
direction I don't know, called out some of the people
who had made the trip from New York to support
their team and in turn support our team. The audience
booed these people. I'd say that was not who's your hospitality?
One could only say it's poor, poor sportsmanship. I was
not proud to be a Hoosier and I've lived here

(06:39):
my entire life. On behalf of most Hoosiers. I would
like to apologize for our poor behavior. I'm sure the
Pacers had nothing to do with his smack This SmackDown,
signed John Mellencamp. Hah, hilarious, and I agree with it.

(07:00):
It's not who's your hospitality, it's just gross, you know,
base again, the same thing you complain about on social media.
Oh my god, we're ruining all these people by all
the attacks to go, Yeah, that's what that is. That's
just social media on a microphone is just a guy
attacking them so that other people can mock. There's no
reason to do that. Win the game. That's how you

(07:23):
overpower the other teams fans. You win the game, and
they need to smile and say thanks for thanks for
showing up. The hardest part of that answer from John
Mellencamp for Pat McAfee, who is obviously not a moron,
but he understands how to be the Sherpa guide of
the morons. Is that Mellencamp doesn't know who he is.

(07:49):
That's the best part. I was embarrassed when somebody under
whose direction I don't know, called out some of the
Oh my god, he didn't know who it is. That's
killing the ego maniac. That is Pat McAfee, a flabby
pig who gets up on TV wearing a wife beater
and people are like, dude, I'd cover that stuff up.

(08:10):
Those days are over. You don't need to be showing
that off. Pop. Yeah, thank you, John Mellencamp, job well done.
Just start being nicer to people yourself. You could learn
something from that. All right, back in a minute on
news radio. Wait forty whs
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