ESPN personality Pat McAfee has come under fire for invoking the name of infamous sex abuser Dr. Larry Nassar when making a joke about Michigan State’s football uniforms.
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McAfee, the recent recipient of a massive contract to host his podcast on ESPN, attempted to make a joke about the new alternate uniforms saying, “I think Nassar was in on the design team actually.”Nassar, a former physician for Michigan State and Team USA Gymnastics, was recently convicted and sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison. for sexually assaulting over 250 females, many of them children.
Former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar appears in court for his final sentencing phase in Eaton County Circuit Court on February 5, 2018, in Charlotte, Michigan. It’s just so refreshing to know that media companies like ESPN would rather employ clowns and clickbait artists like McAfee than actual talented writers and reporters with integrity.
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