Pat McAfee, his high-tempo howl reduced to a breathy rasp, was running out of energy. Perhaps the most unlikely tycoon in sports media history, McAfee had been going hard within the confines of his Indianapolis studio for more than two hours on a Tuesday in January and his A-list guest – the NFL's greatest quarterback of 2021 – was running late.
The sudden pause reduced McAfee to quiet contemplation.
“Are we the luckiest group of people of all time?” McAfee asked his posse of characters who help comprise The Pat McAfee Show, a three-hour hallucination as much as it is a sports talk show.