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Linda Cohn on ESPN, Pat McAfee ‘lovefest’: ‘How much Pat McAfee is enough Pat McAfee?’

Credit: The Linda Cohn Show In June, Linda Cohn retired from ESPN after hosting SportsCenter more than anyone else over 34 years. Upon leaving, she launched The Linda Cohn Show and has not.

Linda Cohn on ESPN, Pat McAfee ‘lovefest’: ‘How much Pat McAfee is enough Pat McAfee?’
Linda Cohn talks Pat McAfee on 'The Linda Cohn Show,' August 2026
Credit: 'The Linda Cohn Show'
In June, about content.

More specifically, according to Awful Announcing Podcast, but it’s abundantly clear that, at the very least, ESPN really, really wants McAfee to be the face.

to Monday Night Countdown. Cohn isn’t sure how much more McAfee she can take.

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Cohn then cited ESPN in a month

— Jarrett Bailey (@JBaileyNFL) Later, Cohn quipped, “I have to ask this: Why?! Why? I have to laugh. Apparently, if Peyton and Eli take the night off, we cannot be left alone with the actual football game broadcast? What’s wrong with [Joe] Buck and [Troy] Aikman? Alone? Can’t we just watch them? The actual football game? I can’t stop laughing. It’s crazy, right?”

Cohn discussed “McAfee fatigue” and noted that even McAfee fans don’t want this: “They’re basically saying, ‘I like Pat, I watch Pat, I just don’t need him at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. '”

Cohn said she doesn’t blame McAfee for accepting every opportunity thrown his way. Instead, she said, it’s about ESPN disregarding what viewers want.

To that end, Cohn cited , in favor of The Pat McAfee Show.

The tribute was cut off by the start of The Pat McAfee Show.

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) “You couldn’t script it any better; you couldn’t script it any worse,” Cohn said. “

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