Pat McAfee Is A BAMF!

On the Monday after the Colts' game on Thanksgiving in 2016 — the Colts "got blown the (expletive) out on national TV. It was the biggest turkey bowl of the day," McAfee said — Grigson asked McAfee meet him in his office.

"Maybe this is an olive branch," McAfee remembered thinking. "If it wasn’t for me, we’re shut out on national TV. I’m leading the league in almost everything, I don’t think I’ve given up a return yard in maybe two months, three months, I’m the No. 2 jersey seller for the Colts, I’m doing a lot of charity work. Maybe this is Grigson being, ‘You know, I fined you three to four times before about dumb (expletive), but I would like to be friends.'"

And then, the moment that effectively ended McAfee's NFL career:

"He goes, ‘Sit down.’ And I’m like, ‘Woah.’ Immediately. ... There was already in my head an idea of me being sick of making money for Ryan Grigson and the Colts operation at the time. It was at that moment that I realized, ‘I’m (expletive) done here.’"

The issue at hand? A picture McAfee had posted on social media the week before.

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"He has the picture on a piece of paper, slams it on the desk, pushes it across the desk to me and I look at it," McAfee said of Grigson. "At this moment in my head, I’ve already said ‘(expletive) it’ to this guy. I look at the photo and look up at him. It’s like a moment of silence."

The issue, according to Grigson, who could not be reached for comment, was that the picture was taken in a "football room."

"He pulls out my contract, opens it up, goes to a clause. ‘Since this isn’t your first offense, I can fine you a game check for this,’" McAfee recalled Grigson saying. "You only get 17 game checks in your entire salary, so if you want to look up what that was, it was $100,000 almost. I said, ‘For what?’ He said, ‘Is that a football room?’ I said, ‘Well the title is an equipment room. There’s footballs in there I guess.’ He goes, ‘Why do you have to be such a smartass? I can fine you anything I want. This is why we’re losing.’ This is why we lost to the Steelers, he tells me."

Then McAfee went all in.

"I said, ‘You paid a guy $140 million and you can’t keep him healthy," McAfee said. "Your offensive line is swiss cheese. He’s blown out his shoulder three times, and you’re worried about this (expletive)?’ He goes, ‘What did you just say to me?’ I go, ‘Oh yeah, I’m the best in the game at what I do. I wish you would do the same.” This is a moment he did not expect. He goes, ‘You’re going to walk into my office and disrespect me?’ I go, ‘You called me in here.’ He said, ‘I’m going to fine you a whole game check.’ I said, ‘Cool bro,’ and literally walked out of his office. As I walk out, he gives me the, ‘Get out of my office.’ I go, ‘Already walking out.’"

Then McAfee walked down to coach Chuck Pagano's office.

"I go, ‘Hey, if you had anything to do with that, you can go (expletive) yourself too, just like I told Grigson," McAfee said. "He goes, ‘What are you talking about?’ Chuck had no idea."

Pagano, who also could not be reached for comment, called McAfee later, but his decision had already been made.

"I told Chuck on that phone call, ‘I just don’t feel like you guys appreciate or are grateful for what I’m doing,’" McAfee said. "In the locker room, I feel like I was pretty valuable. Anything at work, I busted my (expletive) off because I wanted to talk. As a punter, you have to be good to talk. You can’t just suck and talk. That was the conversation. I told him, ‘I don’t think the NFL is for me anymore, and to be honest, I don’t think I want to make money for you guys anymore. And I am done after this season.’”