Pat McAfee talks Larry Nassar joke tweet, apologizes ‘if some people took that in a different way and spun it’

Pat McAfee addressed a joke he made about Michigan State’s soccer uniforms by referencing disgraced sports activities physician Larry Nassar.

McAfee talked about the snide tweet on his present Monday. He’s set to maneuver his present to ESPN within the close to future.

“Hey, hear, I don’t need to say it, as a result of, you realize, there may be an all-out onslaught towards me proper now for merely linking one horrible factor from a faculty with probably the most horrible factor from a faculty to a buddy in a reply tweet, speaking s— to a buddy,” he stated. “And I do apologize if some individuals took that otherwise and spun it in their very own narrative to different individuals and type of did their very own factor.”

“I used to be merely speaking s— to a buddy. However does it really feel like Michigan State alums are attempting to silence the media each time they acknowledge that Larry Nassar, one of the vital horrible people ever, of all time, he was at Michigan State 14 years? So, that’s probably not part of the story, that they type of created and empowered [him]. If that’s going to get us canceled. … It’s going to get loud.”

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Pat McAfee is seen on the sphere previous to the sport between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Georgia Bulldogs within the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 31, 2022, in Atlanta. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Pictures)

McAfee stated he was getting messages that stated he ought to delete the tweet. However he requested why if he was solely “speaking s—” to his buddy. He added that if Nassar did design the “STATE” jerseys with inexperienced shirts and neon-green pants “that wouldn’t even be talked about within the Larry Nassar complete factor.”

“We consider Larry Nassar is a horrible human, the worst human, disgusting human,” he continued. “I wish to say that this present coated that greater than most likely anyone, greater than anyone about how dangerous of a man he’s, greater than anyone did. So, there was lots of people who have been like, ‘Oh, you suppose this man …’ and I’m like, ‘No, horrible man,’ additionally Cunning’s faculty.”

McAfee continued to justify the tweet, saying the world wants to talk the reality about “horrible individuals in highly effective positions.”

“We will’t simply, this isn’t one thing the place it’s like ‘can’t discuss this.’ It’s like, ‘Hey, in our historical past, very current historical past, individuals got numerous energy and have been horrible individuals within the sports activities world.’ And the way in which we determine to cowl it’s by speaking s— to someone who loves all the pieces about Michigan State as a result of that’s his faculty.”

Pat McAfee is launched previous to the WWE Royal Rumble on January 28, 2023, in San Antonio. (Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Pictures)

“If I went to Michigan State and this complete factor occurred, and so they didn’t say that to me, we’d be avoiding one thing that’s very severe and really horrible and really actual. So, I do apologize to all people that simply took my six-word tweet and stated that I used to be disrespecting this and never enthusiastic about the victims. I used to be like, ‘What?’ I feel we’re enthusiastic about the victims, future victims, by reminding folks that this mother—er had numerous energy at Michigan State for a very long time whereas being a horrible human being. And I’m simply s—talking a buddy.”

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Nassar is serving a long time in jail for sexually assaulting gymnasts, together with Olympic medalists. He admitted sexually assaulting athletes when he labored at Michigan State College and USA Gymnastics.

He additionally pleaded responsible to possessing little one pornography.

Throughout sufferer affect statements in 2019, a number of athletes testified that over the course of Nassar’s greater than 20 years of sexual abuse, that they had instructed coaches and trainers and different adults what was occurring, nevertheless it went unreported.

Nassar is prone to spend the remainder of his life behind bars.

Greater than 150 victims spoke or submitted statements throughout the seven-day listening to, together with Simone Biles. The ladies sought greater than $1 billion from the federal authorities over the FBI’s failure to cease Nassar when brokers grew to become conscious of the allegations towards him in 2015.

A remaining enchantment from Nassar was rejected by the Michigan Supreme Court docket final month. Attorneys for Nassar stated he was handled unfairly in 2018 and deserved a brand new listening to primarily based on the decide calling him a “monster,” amongst different remarks.

“I simply signed your loss of life warrant,” Ingham County Decide Rosemarie Aquilina stated of Nassar’s 40-year sentence.

Larry Nassar (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

Whereas the Michigan Supreme Court docket stated it had considerations over the decide’s conduct, officers famous Aquilina caught to the sentencing settlement labored out by the legal professionals on the case.

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“We decline to expend extra judicial sources and additional topic the victims on this case to extra trauma the place the questions at hand current nothing greater than an educational train,” the courtroom stated.

The Related Press contributed to this report.