Dumb suffers (and whines)

 He's been ESPN's newest flavor for just five months, but already Pat McAfee is calling out the World Wide Leader. Said one of his bosses, Norby Williamson, is a "rat" who's trying to sabotage his radio show. Said it on his radio show -- right there on an ESPN platform, other words.

Which was either brave or foolhardy, take your pick. As someone once observed, they often look the same.

What the Blob will observe is this looks like another marriage that won't last, and surprise, surprise. A huge part of McAfee's appeal has always been his unruliness, after all. And unruliness doesn't play well at the WWL.

They like their talent in neatly packed boxes there, and McAfee has never been a neatly-packed-box sort of guy. Saying whatever crossed his mind at the moment it crossed his mind is pretty much his stock in trade.

However.

However, in the real grownup world, there are sometimes consequences. And guys like McAfee never seem to deal well with consequences.

A lot of his public sniping at his employer, after all, springs from McAfee's paid lounge act Aaron Rodgers saying something on McAfee's show he shouldn't oughta have said: That talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel was probably on Jeffrey Epstein's list of associates and travel partners. In other words, Rodgers was kinda-sorta suggesting  Kimmel was a pedophile.

This obviously didn't sit well with Kimmel, mainly because it wasn't true. So he threatened to drop a nuclear defamation suit on Rodgers and/or his enabler, McAfee, claiming (with a touch of the drama king, admittedly) that Rodgers had put his family in danger. ESPN promptly rolled out a statement condemning Rodgers' spew, and saying it did NOT reflect the opinion or values of ESPN, blar-de-blar-blar-blar.

McAfee's on-air rant quickly followed. You put two-and-two together.

But remember that business about consequences?

Well, in this case, when you pay a certified loon like Rodgers to come on your show every week precisely because he might say something loony, occasionally he will. And when he does ... well, you get what you pay for. Even if it means a late-night star threatening to sue you for defamation.

Them's  the consequences, Pat ol' buddy. Getting all mad at ESPN for apologizing on your behalf and claiming the WWL is sabotaging your show doesn't change the fact you played with fire and got burned.

And that's the attraction with Rodgers, isn't it?

Because if all the guy did was come on and drone about pass coverages and quarterback play like any other future Hall of Fame QB, how long would he have had a regular gig on McAfee's show? A week? Two weeks?

No, it's the goofiness McAfee was after, and God knows Rodgers has an abundance of it.  Occasionally too much, as McAfee has discovered. But again, you get what you pay for. 

No sense whining about it now.