ESPN remains silent after Aaron Rodgers’ ugly attack on Jimmy Kimmel

ESPN’s Pat McAfee ignited a backlash when he allowed Aaron Rodgers to baselessly suggest that Jimmy Kimmel might be named in the Jeffrey Epstein documents.

ESPN has a Pat McAfee problem on its hands. The sports broadcaster ignited a torrent of backlash on Tuesday when he allowed the conspiracy curious and injured New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers to baselessly suggest during his show that Jimmy Kimmel might be named in documents identifying Jeffrey Epstein associates. Kimmel, undeniably one of the brightest stars in the Disney universe, fired back at the assertion made on ABC’s sister channel, saying the “reckless words” put his family “in danger” and that if he kept it up, the two of them would “debate the facts further in court.” McAfee, for his part, offered an apology on Wednesday. The sports personality, who confessed to the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand that he pays Rodgers seven figures to appear on his show, told his audience that his program is supposed to be “an uplifting, a happy one, a fun one” and that he doesn’t “like the fact that we’re associated with anything negative ever.” “Some things, obviously, people get very pissed off about, especially when they’re that serious allegations,” McAfee said. “So we apologize for being a part of it.” The less than vigorous apology, delivered a full day after the offensive remark was made, came much too late. Rodgers’ supposed “s**t talk joke” about Kimmel, as McAfee described it, had leaped around the world and breathed air into the notion that the comedian was an associate of Epstein, the convicted pedophile.