Pat McAfee's Thoughts On Peyton Manning Turning Down Monday Night Football

that man is Peyton Manning, okay, so everyone knows that I was very lucky, very, very lucky to be selected for a team where Peyton Manning was the face every time I was selected to be a punter, a position of the that I didn't know anything until I was selected. by the Indianapolis Colts to join the Colts in 2009. I knew I was coming to a team that had an absolute goat at quarterback, so obviously I talked about the first day I met him, where I met all the other OGS in the equipment. wine, how are you doing?

I'm like, oh, it was nice meeting you, Jeff Saturday Dallas Clark Gary Brackett Adam Vinatieri, so this guy from the other side of the locker room came walking in, he had some khaki shorts, boat shoes, a collared shirt, glasses. that thing that connects around the neck was in the middle of spring, hello, my name is Peyton Manning and I said, you know, you're Peyton Manning, it was a pleasure meeting you, he was an absolute gentleman and he invited me to go on a golf trip . before he even really met me and on that same golf trip he told me to bet on red 18 because he had a feeling at the craps table and red et o didn't rule out, but roulette and red 18 won a huge payday, but without him not even. knowing that he hit he walked away knowing that he was going to hit I mean, Peyton Manning was a great teammate a great teammate Peyton Manning after his career playing in the NFL he has been a pizza salesman he has been an insurance salesman he has been an actor hilarious he was able to do what he wanted when he wanted, he hosts a show on ESPN that has been airing basically for as long as Peyton places, it's 10 episodes long, it's like Matt or maybe 30 episodes, it's a huge thing, he's been successful at every single thing.

Peyton Manning has ever tried to do Saturday Night Live. Everyone says it's the best athlete edition of Saturday Night Live in its history. You're talking about a pizza deal that he got out of before Papa John John Schneider decided to ruin his entire company. Platon was already out of everything Peyton has done, it's been the right move every time and if you really watch him from afar or up close, you'll be like you know what that guy makes a lot of good decisions, not just on a

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field , that guy could run for president if he wanted to and I think he would win by the way because that's all Payton operates on and when Payton was offered Monday Night Football last year the year before, there were always reasons why he wouldn't did.

He didn't want to, he didn't want to have to criticize Eli at a Monday

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game because he loves his brother. Well, that was always the public reason. Last year it was the same and this year, whatever they won after Tony Romo and his turn. around they said no, I'll stay with CBS and then every time they wanted to try to trade for NBC's Al Michaels and it turned out NBC said no, thank you Peyton Manning was the person ESPN wanted for Monday Night Football, the Jason Witten thing was no It didn't go very well, the Booker McFarland thing didn't go very well.

The internet let them know that these were bad decisions by Pratt and that they were going to go all out this year first with Tony Romo, now with Peyton Manning they are saying they were going to pay. He gets paid $20 million a year to be the color commentator on Monday Night Football. Now I will say that the commentator's schedule is much worse than you could imagine. You are in that city for three days, before and after, it is like you. When you find yourself, you're doing this, it's a job, it's a real job, it's not like you just show up unprepared and just do your thing, there's a time commitment involved, so if you're retired, it may not be something what you want to do. but for $20 million a year in one of the highest-rated positions in all of football, Peyton Manning's name on Monday Night Football would have been huge for everyone, for NFL fans it would have been great to hear the Old Peyton Manning's brain vomit. to the national network every time games are played, it would be nice to hear him break down the things he sees and just like Tony Romo is able to do, it would have been nice to have Peyton Manning there, but now for the third time, Peyton Manning.

He said no one day before his 44th birthday, he turned down a possible five-year, hundred million dollar contract to do Monday Night Football and I want to tell Peyton Manning that I'm bummed about that, I think he would have been very, very good there, but all Rhodes for this Monday Night Football job takes me. All roads lead to me. I don't know, I'm not, I'm not sure and I'll probably get yelled at even for a while. talking about this who knows who knows what, I'm sure some people just, but all roads lead through Indianapolis, Indiana for that Monday

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I mean, we're at the point now where no one wants the job that I'm now being awarded. I'm sure there are a lot of players out there who would love to get that gig and I'm sure there are a lot of people, although since it's the Super Bowl every week, it's different on Monday night, I mean, it's a big deal and Oh! role so important that you're sitting there and they haven't found the last two. I think they think I think the world thinks that and I don't think it's Booker McFarland's fault or Jason's fault as a witness.

I just think it's a scenario where you have a lot of eyes on you, so when you're thrown in the deep end, you have to be able to swim and if you struggle, people will say, "There seems to be a lack of confidence, a lack of much trust". There are things there and people will notice, but wow, what are they going to do with that role? Nobody knows, but there is a company in Indianapolis, Indiana that keeps moving forward and every day the price goes up, it's just what happens, this is the way things go, there's no way I'm going to get out of it. that job, but I'm excited to see who they end up with now that they tried Tony Romo, they tried Peyton Manning, they haven't been in principle, who can they do it?

Understand me, I'm excited to see you be the humble human being that you are. You've always said there's no way you're going to get that job, but what's not humble is because I already said no one can touch me with a microphone, so that's not really it. so humble it's more of a reality type thing, but I mean, confident, I'm pretty sure there's no one who can really follow me, especially when I kick it into high gear like this, there are people who will be listening like he needs to. to slow down, she is going to talk about my football team, well you need to speed up your listening and there won't be such a big problem.

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I think I know the grassroots surge for Mac that you were more 450, the bureaucracy may not want it, but the people want it, you know you win. the mafia you beat is what we've always said, you know, it's a good quote, but I'm not 100% sure that matters particularly when it comes to this kind of world, remember, there are only a few people who are post. these things, yeah right, now there are only a few people who will hire someone who will be intriguing to the fans. I think there are still a couple cans out there that you could potentially get your hands on.

I think there are a couple of people who could get them, but. Boy, I think the only thing they care about is saving the legacy of Monday Night Football one hundred percent. I mean, they have to do it right now, like Joe testator, Booker McFarland, for some reason, it didn't go down well with me, whatever reason you're thinking. your head is fine, probably the reason and by the way there are numerous reasons but some people just didn't receive them well. I didn't hate him because I like Joe. I never knew the book, but I like Joe as a person.

I didn't hate it, but people wrote the same thing in the witan. I mean, for some reason, win, win, so they have to fight for the legacy of Monday Night Football and every time they publicly reject you, that is. It's a very interesting scenario to be there, what do you do next? Okay, let's shoot our shot at the moon again? Do we try to make this all public so everyone knows how Michaels can't do it? Tony Romo says no. Peyton says no, that's not a great look, I mean they are being dominated by every other network, every other network has a team that is very good and he hasn't been able to find someone to compete with, that's now Like Herbie was that good. well Herbstreit, oh yeah, but he's the voice of the university, that's the real voice of college football, so I think that's the difference between ESP and everyone else, they're a team, they're actually in college football , you know, things are now guaranteed if they assumed that.

I guess that money at a football game would be a booth, but every time he gets Herbie for some weed, Streeters talks, by the way, he's so stoned and I feel like he's got two remotes on those telestrators, I feel like he's got it all done . You know what I mean, but I'll be excited to see what they do with that when they try to pick someone from another branch of another network again, well, they'll try to move forward or they'll try to convince someone who hasn't done anything. like Jay Cutler, for example, he hasn't really been in the football world.

Are you going to look up Jay Cutler because you know he's earned a cult following? If he knows football as well as I guess an NFL quarterback knows football, he could potentially be a man. that might work well there, yeah, let's say they pick you who you want to be in the booth with you, well I love Steve Levy, oh yeah I absolutely love Steve Levy. By the way, even every time I tweet about Monday nights. open and the publication's Andrew Marshawn talked about how it's not nice to talk about someone else's role, so you know I'm fine being the third person there, like I'm really fine being the third person in the booth, now cool and, oh, I think it might be the only color I think it might I absolutely think it might, but if it's going to get some legitimacy having an NFL quarterback there and then my questions that I'm going to be able to get that person out of it, we're fine. you know, but I love Steve Levy, I love Orlovsky, I love Hasselbeck, y'all know I feel like Hasselbeck and I hit a good rhythm in that college football thing where we didn't know anything about those blades at football games, but we didn't know anything about those, but we had a good time, I mean, I guess that's what I'll say, those games were a good time, like learning how to do it and stuff like that, but we were hitting a rhythm just as it was finishing and then I did it.

I didn't get to play the ball game with him because I was part of Cheez-it Ball.