ESPN sports analyst Pat McAfee apologized after Aaron Rodgers came on his talk show and implied that Jimmy Kimmel was among those named in the highly anticipated Jeffrey Epstein court documents.
McAfee opened his self-titled show Wednesday by addressing the controversy and chalking up Rodgers’ remarks to making a “s— talk joke” that became a “massive overnight story.” The documents, which were released Wednesday, included the names of Epstein associates and sex-trafficking victims, as well as others who were loosely tied to the late disgraced financier but not accused of wrongdoing. Kimmel was not named in Wednesday’s documents.
“Whenever you’re freewheeling and dealing in here ... your conversations can certainly lead to places that cause international news. And whenever there’s accusations made about people, that can lead to lawsuits,” McAfee said before noting that he’d previously faced a lawsuit from Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre, which was dropped, according to McAfee, after he agreed to read a letter “stating that I know nothing that anybody else doesn’t know publicly already.”
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