Pat McAfee doesn’t even have to be somewhere to end up in the middle of a controversy.
While broadcasting a seven-on-seven soccer tournament, TST announcers Sebastian Salazar and Herculez Gomez called out McAfee for not being present as the team he owns, the CONCAFA Soccer Club, played a semifinal game where the winner of the final would win $1 million.
“Hold on, we’re hyping up Pat McAfee and he’s not even here?” Salazar said after the duo mistakenly thought McAfee was in attendance. “You’ve got to be here, your team is playing for a million bucks tomorrow. Production, what are you telling me he’s got going on? WWE. You know anything about that Herc?”
McAfee, who did take his eponymous show on the road to Cary, N.C. during the week for the beginning of the tournament, was broadcasting at one of WWE’s premier events of the year, Money in the Bank, where he worked as an announcer alongside Michael Cole and Wade Barrett.
The event featured the shocking return of R-Truth, who attacked John Cena in the main event and cost Cena and Logan Paul their tag team match against Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso.
It appears that McAfee got word about what they were saying about him on the broadcast.
“TST Commentary talking s–t on me,” McAfee said on X. “Hope the CONCAFA squad s–t pumps this whole tournament.”
McAfee then called out the commentary team, saying he “had no idea what his name was” but that the “guys a bum on the microphone.”
McAfee’s squad was smashed in the match 5-1 as the Pumas de Alabama were able to clinch a finals berth.
“Heartbroken… Still incredibly prahd of the @ConcafaPod boys. It was a great run. The Pumas team was unbelievable.. good luck to them in the finals tomorrow.”
Salazar, who works for ESPN part-time, didn’t take the back and forth with McAfee lightly.
“Sorry for your loss,” Salazar posted on X in McAfee’s direction. “Big man has some thin skin!”
McAfee, a former NFL punter, founded the team and has played occasionally for them.
“Heartbroken… Still incredibly prahd of the @ConcafaPod boys,” the ESPN host wrote on X of his squad that is coached by former USMNT goalie Tony Meola.
“It was a great run. The Pumas team was unbelievable.. good luck to them in the finals (Monday).”
The league features teams of men and women, where there is a winner-takes-all $1 million prize for both divisions. There is no second-place prize.
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