'Sick-Minded' Skip Bayless Roasted by ESPY's McAfee for Bills' Hamlin Take

"We all at home feared for the worst,'' Pat McAfee said, recalling Damar Hamlin's near-death experience with the Bills. "And Skip Bayless was like, 'Get that dead body off the field. We got playoff implications on the line!'"

Our own Mike Fisher, who has covered the NFL for 40 years, responded to Skip Bayless' coverage of the life-and-death Damar Hamlin situation by pointing out that Bayless - who Fisher has known for 33 years - is "sick-minded.''

Pat McAfee stepped up to join in that analysis as he celebrated Buffalo Bills standout Hamlin while delivering the ESPYS monologue on Wednesday ... and McAfee absolutely destroyed the hate-mongering Bayless.

"We all at home feared for the worst,'' McAfee said, recalling Hamlin suffering a cardiac arrest on the field on Jan. 2's Monday Night Football. "And Skip Bayless was like, 'Get that dead body off the field. We got playoff implications on the line!'"

McAfee, ESPN's newest personality, is not exaggerating by much. While he introduced Hamlin at the annual awards show, calling what viewers witnessed "one of the most inspirational things that has ever happened in human history," he also made sure the world knows that the contrarian FS1 pundit Bayless' controversial Twitter post that evening is still up ... sitting there boldly ... and ignorantly.

Bayless created a level of national disgust - which is sort of what FS1 pays him to do, we suppose - when he suggested if the football game between the Bills and Cincinnati Bengals was simply too essential to be canceled ... even though Hamlin was involved in a life-or-death situation ... in the middle of the field.

"No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game - but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome ... which suddenly seems so irrelevant," Bayless wrote that night.

"How'' would they postpone, suspend or end the game? Exactly as they did it. The NFL ended it.

Damar Hamlin is an ABSOLUTE DAWG..

That tweet is still up Skip 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/l0DWmlC5j4

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) July 13, 2023

Again, as McAfee noted, the "tweet's still up." Days later, on the show they co-hosted, Bayless told Shannon Sharpe he wouldn't delete the post "because I stand by what I tweeted." The nauseating post remains up ... and it has 170 million views.

Sharpe has since divorced himself from Bayless' Undisputed show, as Fisher has written, maybe "canceling'' the charlatan conman Bayless in a way.

McAfee, meanwhile, praised the Bills training staff and called Hamlin an "absolute dog" for pursuing an NFL comeback. That, of course, should be the story. So why discuss Bayless? Because one way to identify a cockroach is to turn on the lights.

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