Pat McAfee pokes enjoyable at Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment stay on ESPN

Pat McAfee has grow to be ESPN’s strongest and influential persona. That’s why he enjoys a lot autonomy, instructions one of many community’s richest contracts and may say or do issues on his “progrum” that different ESPN personalities would not dream of trying — or would not be allowed to get away with.

During Thursday’s present, McAfee poked enjoyable at Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the fifth Amendment a reported 111 occasions whereas “speaking” on the United States Senate listening to.

Pat McAfee seems on the College RecreationDay present earlier than a sport between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Georgia Bulldogs at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn., on Sept. 13, 2025. (ISI Photos through Getty Images)

During a parody phase by which he pretended to interview Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio stay, McAfee requested, “Vic, we appreciate you joining us. Do you think your team will win the Super Bowl this year?”

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Fangio’s reply was a replay of his earlier press convention at Eagles’ camp the place he jokingly responded to reporter’s questions by stating, “I’m gonna be like Fauci, and just take the 5th Amendment on all your questions.”

They did this forwards and backwards track and dance with a number of “Pat McAfee Show” personalities asking him questions on Jalen Carter getting an enormous extension, splicing in Fangio pleading the fifth.

Feb 5, 2025; New Orleans, LA, USA; Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio speaks with the media throughout a press convention at Hilton New Orleans Riverside. (Bill Streicher-Imagn Images)

Add this to the lengthy listing of McAfee poking the political bear.

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In the previous, McAfee has adamantly defended interviewing President Trump on Veterans Day, went off on liberal hockey followers and media for his or her therapy of his beneficiant provide to cowl Team USA males’s hockey bar tab in Miami after successful gold and destroyed the narrative that individuals take pleasure in watching Caitlin Clark as a result of she’s white, spouted by woke personalities on the community reminiscent of Monica McNutt.

In the previous, McAfee has adamantly defended interviewing President Trump on Veterans Day, gone off on liberal hockey followers and members of the media over their therapy of his beneficiant provide to cowl Team USA males’s hockey bar tab in Miami after its gold-medal victory and pushed again towards the narrative, promoted by ESPN personalities reminiscent of Monica McNutt, that individuals take pleasure in watching Caitlin Clark as a result of she’s white.

Pat McAfee makes his entrance throughout WrestleMania 42 Night 1 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nev., on April 18, 2026. (Andrew Timms/WWE)

Love him or hate him, Pat McAfee is unapologetic in the best way he destroys the political narratives and rhetoric that has divided and pushed tens of millions of viewers away from ESPN over time.

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As for Fauci, he “could be barred from federal government work under a House GOP bill” after his latest actions earlier than Congress. Personally, I’m hoping it’s way more than that.