Pat McAfee ‘very, very uncomfortable’ at University of Utah due to light criticism, alludes to Charlie Kirk assassination
We live in the golden age of rich and powerful people lack the ability to handle even the slightest criticism, and few people embody that ethos as much as Pat McAfee. College GameDay spent its second consecutive weekend in Utah, landing in Salt Lake City on Saturday for the Big 12 showdown between the Utah…
Pat McAfee expressed his discomfort with the University of Utah due to light criticism, alluding to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The Pat McAfee Show, airing its second consecutive weekend in Utah, featured McAfee taking off his shirt and criticizing The New York Times. The episode concluded with McAfee mentioning a University of Utah Instagram post that mocked him, which he found particularly offensive.
McAfee stated that watching the university's post just before going out made him feel incredibly uncomfortable and made him feel weird about walking in front of thousands of students. McAfee also mentioned a video created by Utah Student Experience, in which students made fun of him for being corny, which he found unsettling. The video has been deleted from the accounts, but McAfee felt that the university's posting of it was what made him feel the most uncomfortable.
McAfee drew a parallel between the university's reaction to his criticism and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a right-wing political activist who was killed in Utah last September. McAfee expressed his frustration with the University of Utah and its fans, stating that he will never see them again and hopes he won't get COVID when GameDay returns.
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