WWE SmackDown commentator and former NFL star Pat McAfee announced today that he tested positive for COVID-19.
McAfee, who was last seen on WWE television announcing SmackDown-related matches during this Saturday’s SummerSlam, first mentioned his current health situation during his radio show (which you can see below: go to 3:09:00 for this part and H / T at WrestlingNews.Co for more information).
“Totally wasted. Very positive. Aht indefinitely.”
“It’s unfortunate but grateful that my wife and the boys in the office have tested and they are all negative. Obviously, this is a sign of the universe, which probably tells me it stinks and I stay home for a while “I’ll see yinz.”
In his tweet announcing the diagnosis, McAfee revealed that he had already been vaccinated. He has also been battling 104.5 degree fever. His wife, Samantha, and their children, so far, have been negative.
Pat McAfee has a long history with professional wrestling
Although he was best known to the world at large as a former NFL Indianapolis Colts leader, he was part of the Colts team, along with quarterback Peyton Manning, who won Super Bowl XLIV in 2009; McAfee has had a pretty long history with the WWE and professional wrestling in general.
That same year, the same year he was recruited, Pat McAfee participated in a game for the East Coast of IWA, which he won after a blow and a low superkick.
In 2017, a year after his retirement in the NFL, McAfee began training with legend Rip Rogers in hopes of working for the WWE, a process you can see in the Barstool Sports video. That dream came true when, in August last year, Pat McAfee faced Adam Cole at NXT TakeOver XXX in Winter Park, FL.
Everyone at Sportskeeda wishes Pat McAfee a speedy recovery, as well as anyone else fighting COVID-19.
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