{"id":6019,"date":"2023-07-30T20:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T00:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2023-07-30T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:42:13","slug":"espn-personality-gross-nassar-joke-michigan-state-football-jerseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=6019","title":{"rendered":"ESPN personality doubles down on gross Nassar joke about Michigan State football jerseys"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A prominent ESPN personality made a horrible joke about Larry Nassar when talking about Michigan State football jerseys.<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a <a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-unveils-new-black-jerseys-photo\/\">Michigan State football<\/a> fan, you&#8217;ve probably been glued to social media all weekend as the program hosted &#8216;Thy Shadows&#8217; to unveil a new jersey as well as Spartan Dawg Con.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the all-black jerseys sparked conversation all over Twitter (now X) and it even got fans thinking about the last new uniform concept that Michigan State unveiled: neons.<\/p>\n<p>A former Spartan who works on the Pat McAfee Show posted about the neons and how he&#8217;s shocked that Michigan State ever thought it was a good idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I still can\u2019t believe Michigan State thought it was ok to roll out these uniforms <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VvRrRRF4Qk\">pic.twitter.com\/VvRrRRF4Qk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evan Fox (@evanfoxy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evanfoxy\/status\/1685665648037224448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His boss, Pat McAfee, responded with one of the most tasteless jokes you&#8217;ll ever see.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think Nassar was in on the design team actually<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1685693409502113793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just horrible. But hey, he&#8217;s known for being a vulgar podcast host who speaks his mind and usually doesn&#8217;t have a filter. This is on brand for him, but he received immediate backlash.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee is now an ESPN personality as he&#8217;s joined the College GameDay cast this past year and this is yet another bad look for the company that&#8217;s had black eye after black eye. It makes you wonder if he&#8217;s going to receive any punishment from the company, especially since they covered the Nassar story closely and know it&#8217;s nothing to joke about.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, anyone with a brain knows you don&#8217;t joke about it.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is the joke tasteless and gross, but it doesn&#8217;t make sense. Like at all. And instead of deleting an issuing an apology, he responded to fans telling him to delete by basically saying &#8220;why?&#8221; in GIF form. He also retweeted his own horrible joke. That&#8217;s just doubling and tripling down on the ugliest form of humor out there.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope McAfee can donate some of his big ESPN checks to the Nassar victim&#8217;s fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a horrible look for ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,191,189],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}