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Pat McAfee nearly joined the Buccaneers in 2020

The COVID season of the NFL was a wild one. With people constantly being tested and players in and out of facilities due to the coronavirus, there were a lot of contingency plans in place for the teams around the NFL.

For the Buccaneers, one of those plans was a retired punter who can also kick the heck out of a football - but he left the game to create a multimedia empire.

Pat McAfee, host of the Pat McAfee Show on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Radio and numerous podcasts and YouTube shows, retired from the NFL after the 2016 season in order to pursue that media lifestyle that has become one of the most popular around the country.