Pat McAfee has found Winnipeg, although he confesses he nonetheless couldn’t discover it on a map if he needed to.
Talking on his sports activities program, The Pat McAfee Present, on Monday, the ESPN host referenced Sunday’s Stanley Cup playoff sport in Manitoba’s capital metropolis — and the assist followers confirmed within the Jets’ 7-6 win.
“There was a sport in Winnipeg that was unbelievable,” McAfee stated. “And Winnipeg, I couldn’t even. … If there was an empty map of Canada and so they stated, ‘Pat, go forward and pin this explicit no matter, mountie, a horse, pin this horse … and it’s large so there’s loads of totally different choices … I couldn’t guess, for the lifetime of me, the place the hell it’s.
“However I do understand it’s a spot I’d wish to be someday.”
McAfee was impressed with Winnipeg’s white-towel-waving effort, aka “The White Out,” a practice within the metropolis for Jets video games that dates again to the late Eighties.
“Take a look at this place going bananas!” McAfee stated. “Full white out, full dedication!”
The Jets responded on Twitter by providing to assist McAfee discover Winnipeg by inviting him to a sport.
Throughout the break, McAfee stated he’d accessed a map and realized that Winnipeg “is above Minnesota and North Dakota,” including, “I believed it was means lefter.”
