The Pat McAfee Show has apparently been told to shy away from using NFL logos for the time being.
As he began the show Monday, McAfee commented that the show’s graphics would look slightly different than viewers had come to expect, because of a recent decision by the league.
“The Professional American Football League will finish its eighth week of its riveting primetime schedule as the Cincinnati football club travels to Cleveland to take on Cleveland’s football club,” McAfee said, as he avoided using any trademarks held by the National Football League. “And a lot of people may be asking ‘Pat, on this particular Halloween, why are you talking the way that you’re talking about the league that you’ve talked about the last three years?’. Well, the reason that I’m doing so is because even though we currently have a rights deal with NFL Films that costs us MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of dollars, we have been informed this morning that we are no longer allowed to use any of their logos on any of our graphics.”
“We can still run highlights and we can still run plays, because we paid — not one, not two, not three — over $4 million to be able to do as such, but we got word this morning…not allowed to use any logos on any graphics,” McAfee said of the show’s deal with NFL Films. “It’s been great doing business with you, I’m happy we have covered your league in the way that we have for the last few years. I am appreciative of the league and everything its done.”
He then sarcastically threatened to discuss things pertaining to the NFL that he has avoided in the past.
“I don’t think that we touched on many subjects we could have dabbled into,” McAfee said. “I think we’ll do that this offseason, for sure. We’ll talk a lot of things I know about — and my friends know a lot about — like insurance, and CTE, and concussions, and everything like that. I think we can find some people to chat about what the NFL should be held accountable for and what they shouldn’t be held accountable for. Because I thought the entire deal with the NFL — the Professional American Football League, I am so sorry — that I wanted to get involved with was making the game celebrated.”
To compensate for the lack of NFL logos, the show featured hand drawn cartoons of Joe Burrow, Trey Hendrickson, Nick Chubb, and Myles Garrett to promote tonight’s Monday Night Football broadcast.
