PMS 2.0 555 - MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT THURSDAY, Thursday Night Football Preview, Steve Smith Sr., Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat finally addresses the big news that he's been teasing for a few months now, before diving into tonight's Thursday Night Football game and AJ Hawk's super boost of the Pittsburgh Steelers ML over the Minnesota Vikings available only at FanDuel Sportsbook. Joining the program to chat about everything about tonight's game and what to expect from week 14 from the NFL season is NFL Network Insider, friend of the program, Ian Rapoport (18:00-39:24). Later, joining Pat and AJ Hawk to chat about tonight's game, his career, at what point he turned the switch off, being one of the fiercest competitors in the history of the NFL, 5x Pro Bowler, 3x All-Pro, member of the Carolina Panthers Hall of Fame and now panelist for Thursday Night Football games, the legend Steve Smith Sr. (41:27-1:12:22). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow and listen every day on Mad Dog Radio, Sirius XM Channel 82. We appreciate you all for listening, come and laugh with us, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it is December 9th a massive day, massive announcement.
0:04.4	Let's get right to it.
0:07.4	I can't thank you all enough.
0:08.7	And 771 days ago, I retired from the NFL
0:13.2	after another pro-Bull season.
0:15.6	Now I was staring down my third surgery in four years,
0:18.8	but there was a lot of other things happening behind the scenes.
0:21.8	That made me question a lot of things.
0:24.5	I didn't want to focus on kicking a ball
0:26.8	when the offense failed anymore.
0:28.0	I wanted to spend my time chasing fulfillment,
0:30.3	although the NFL was awesome.
0:32.0	I'm incredibly grateful for being a part of the NFL.
0:34.6	It reset all the bills for my family and my friends,
0:37.3	but I wanted to chase fulfillment.
0:39.2	I wanted to chase that feeling that you get
0:41.7	whenever somebody disappears from their life
0:43.5	for a moment has a smile.
0:44.8	I wanted to chase the philanthropic goals
0:47.4	that everybody has to make the world a better place.
0:49.4	I wanted to chase something alongside my friends.
0:54.4	And when I retired from the NFL,
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