{"id":91818,"date":"2025-05-30T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/91818\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:26:10","slug":"pat-mcafee-tells-john-mellencamp-to-shut-the-f-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/91818\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee tells John Mellencamp to &#8216;shut the f*** up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers are now the undercard for Pat McAfee and the growing list of celebrities he\u2019s feuding with.<\/p>\n<p>During Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals in Indiana, McAfee was given a live microphone and asked to fire up the home crowd. McAfee <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nba\/pat-mcafee-pacers-knicks-celebrity-fans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">accomplished the task<\/a> by taking aim at the Knicks\u2019 celebrity fans who traveled to Indiana for the game, calling out Spike Lee, Ben Stiller, and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet before urging Pacers fans to send them home with their ears bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>Most Pacers fans seemed to enjoy the bit, as the crowd was successfully fired up. Stiller didn\u2019t enjoy it, but he <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nba\/ben-stiller-responds-pat-mcafee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wasn\u2019t offended<\/a> by it either. Indiana native John Mellencamp, however, hated it. Thursday afternoon, Mellencamp issued a statement saying he was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nba\/john-mellencamp-embarrassed-by-pat-mcafees-theatrics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">embarrassed<\/a>\u201d by McAfee bringing his WWE flair to an NBA game. And at first, McAfee seemed unfazed, saying Mellencamp \u201ccan feel however he wants.\u201d But Friday afternoon, McAfee took a different approach.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a moment for John Cougar Mellencamp<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#PMSLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sSAFHJmDL3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/sSAFHJmDL3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/unlYYcUHEH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/unlYYcUHEH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1928484772008927549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect and appreciate the fact that he said, \u2018You know what? I\u2019ve made a pretty good living over the last few years, grandstanding higher than everybody else on everything. This feels like a good time to do that now.\u2019 And he puts out this horrendous graphic,\u201d McAfee said. \u201cJohn, can\u2019t tell you how bad everything you did here was. The graphic, the quote, the timing\u2026puts this thing out there, doesn\u2019t even say my name. John, shut the f*** up! Okay? They put this out, calls me somebody, I am somebody. And I normally don\u2019t want people to just get slaughtered, because I know we have a very active following.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McAfee went on to claim Mellencamp should have been on his side and relished having a young celebrity in the arena who was willing to show some support for Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, you try to think you\u2019re gonna bury me? I don\u2019t think so, John!\u201d McAfee continued. \u201cHey, Coug! SUCK IT, BUDDY! Hope I get a chance to see you real soon\u2026I don\u2019t want any of your bulls**t. I don\u2019t like you, I know your name, and I don\u2019t like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McAfee vs Spike Lee. McAfee vs Ben Stiller. McAfee vs Chalamet. And now, McAfee vs John Mellencamp. Who needs Knicks-Pacers?<\/p>\n<p>Mellencamp might be the only one who has any real feelings about McAfee\u2019s bit. Because heading into Game 6, Knicks fans are not even remotely concerned with how Stiller or Chalamet are treated in Indiana. Welcome to the world of unruly sports fans, John. McAfee caught everyone by surprise with the pro wrestling-level theatrics, but sports fans have said and done much worse.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers are now the undercard for Pat McAfee and the growing list&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,14411,22772,10290,6,955],"class_list":{"0":"post-91818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-indiana-pacers","10":"tag-john-mellencamp","11":"tag-new-york-knicks","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pat-mcafee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114599374938341852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}