Linda Cohn shreds ESPN for its ‘lovefest’ with Pat McAfee: ‘Welcome to overexposure’

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Key points

• The longtime "Sportcenter" host, who retired from the Worldwide Leader in June, objected to the network's "lovefest" with Pat McAfee.
• This person hosted the first-ever "Sportscaster" in 1992, hasn't seen before.
• "They're basically saying, 'I like Pat, I watch Pat, I just don't need him at breakfast, lunch, and dinner', " she remarked.
• Linda Cohn isn't on ESPN's airwaves anymore and she isn't a fan of what her former employer is becoming.

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For context, the longtime "Sportcenter" host, who retired from the Worldwide Leader in June, objected to the network's "lovefest" with Pat McAfee.

"I admire it all, but admiring what Pat McAfee has accomplished doesn't mean I believe he needs to be everywhere at every time, " Cohn remarked on her self-titled podcast on Thursday. "Since, yeah, ESPN wants Pat McAfee to be everywhere at every time. How much Pat McAfee is enough Pat McAfee?! The answer apparently was more."

McAfee, along with his titular daily show on ESPN, is being continued to the "Monday Night Countdown" roster as well as being slotted in for an alternate broadcast of "Monday Night Football, " according to The Athletic.

It adds up to a Monday that could be wall-to-wall McAfee on the ESPN airwaves.

"So, let's review your potential Monday during the NFL season, which is just a couple of weeks away, " Cohn remarked. "Three hours of Pat's daily show, 'The Pat McAfee Show, ' from the game site. Then, Pat joins 'Monday Night Countdown' before the game. And then, on certain nights, potentially, his own alternative broadcast of 'Monday Night Football.' At this point, let's just call it 'Monday Night McAfee.'". That doesn't consider his analyst work on "College GameDay."

It's not regarding McAfee taking the opportunities given to him, but rather ESPN not realizing that viewers may be coming down with "McAfee fatigue, " Cohn stated.

When the "First Take" crew, honoring late ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen, was cut off for the beginning of McAfee's show, cohn pointed to an incident earlier in the week.

"A founder is honored, " Cohn remarked. "A tribute is cut short. Pat gets blamed, he responds, and suddenly, we're talking regarding Pat again. Welcome to overexposure. Somehow, someway, everything becomes regarding you."

It's nothing that the 66-year-old. This person hosted the first-ever "Sportscaster" in 1992, hasn't seen before.

"ESPN has done this for decades, " Cohn notes. "They have their favorites. Let me tell you. And they create sure you know it over and over and over again. In practice, the viewers can speak up, say they don't like it. But ESPN, most of the time, turns a deaf ear. They do it more than you know. Trust me, I was there."

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