Pat McAfee shares screenshots of hate tweets as part of long, winding social post about security concerns, relationship with fans

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Pat McAfee has faced more criticism than ever in recent days, stemming from his comments about feeling "uncomfortable" at Utah for "College GameDay."

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Earlier in the week, McAfee mentioned the 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University while discussing why he did not enjoy heading to Utah's campus for the show and why a video posted by the university sparked his frustration.

In the days since, McAfee has been subject to questions from fans about why he'd question his safety and security while filming "College GameDay," with Utah also issuing an apology for the video the ESPN star did not like.

Now, McAfee has further explained himself — on Wednesday night, he posted a lengthy message to X that showed hate comments and threats he's received, as well as why he believes his 2024 comments about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif have led to a "frenzy" of criticism towards him.

Here's what McAfee wrote about the criticism and threats he's received. 

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Pat McAfee social post

In his post, McAfee included two screenshots of threat-filled and hateful messages he's received, writing that he if he went into his DMs, he'd "find some wishes for and threats of death for me."

"They’re everywhere," McAfee wrote. "It’s a weird time. The things that get said about what my daughter and son and wife deserve are all rather wild as well."

McAfee continued by specifying the extra security measures that went into a 2025 trip to Tennessee for "College GameDay," with security "worried of a copycat incident potentially happening" and FBI snipers being sent to the area.

"It was a surreal moment. The conversation about the death threats I had been receiving in life was definitely a huge topic," McAfee wrote. "We had no idea what to expect. Nobody had been in that type of situation before. Everybody wanted the best for everybody. I never felt safer and never felt more appreciative of the people that were around me that morning including the students that came out and did WAY more than they could’ve ever imagined for my soul."

McAfee also addressed why he believes he's become a target for criticism, arguing that it stems from his 2024 comments about Khelif.

"Since then, every mistake, misstep or misquote relaunches A LOT of folks into a frenzy of me being the worst person on Earth who needs to be eliminated," McAfee wrote. "I’m trying my best in real time but.. I am to talk about sports and care about the future of sports. I owe everything to sports. I’m grateful as hell to do what I do. I literally try to love every minute of the incredible opportunities I get to experience but.. it’s certainly all a much different life than I could’ve ever expected."

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Pat McAfee Algerian Olympic boxer controversy

In 2024, McAfee faced backlash after he commented about Khelif's opening-round welterweight win against Italy's Angela Carini in just 46 seconds at the Paris Olympics. On his show, McAfee spent around five minutes discussing the bout, falsely claiming that Khelif was “deemed a male” and discussed her as having a “potentially male body.”

Per Awful Announcing, Khelif was assigned as a woman at birth and has not discussed being transgender. According to Media Ite, Klelif had previously been ruled ineligible to compete by the International Boxing Association for having XY chromosomes, but she was ruled eligible by the International Olympic Committee with a condition known as differences of sex development (DSD), which results in XY chromosomes and higher testosterone levels.

McAfee admitted multiple times during his comments that he had not done "enough research."

"The women’s boxing, I haven’t done enough research. I saw that the International Boxing Association deemed a couple of the boxers that are in the Olympics, still in the Olympics, not eligible to box in women’s boxing because they had too much testosterone or they were deemed a male, I believe, from XY chromosome, from the research that I’ve done," McAfee said. "And for me, it’s like, this conversation has been happening for a few years. And I am coming from a very empathetic point of view as well. Because as we all kind of learn about the transgender situation that was happening for people, I think we were all incredibly like, bummed. Like, that would be terrible. Like, if your soul didn’t match your body. That would be quite a conflict every single day.”

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