The dispute between ESPN and YouTube TV continues, with fans missing out on more live sports each day while also not being able to see ESPN coverage of big events like Tuesday's NFL deadline.
The biggest moment of this dispute between two billion-dollar companies (Disney and Google, which own ESPN and YouTube TV) started over the weekend and wiped out an entire Saturday of college football action for a lot of people who pay good money for a YouTube TV subscription. It then really came to a head Monday night when fans, including J.J. Watt, were unable to watch the Cardinals-Cowboys game.
On Tuesday, ESPN's Pat McAfee addressed the situation and had a message for some his big-name coworkers who have shared videos on social media talking about the dispute and how fans can go to a website so they "don't miss any" action.
Here's an example of one of those from Mike Greenberg:
YouTube TV customers: You may lose access to all of ESPN's networks. Head over to https://t.co/lBfCywZQeA now so you don’t miss any of this weekend's action. pic.twitter.com/cqmSXpzI9r
— Mike Greenberg (@Espngreeny) October 30, 2025
Here's what McAfee had to say about those messages:
“We’re all done with it. And also, if you’re on TV, stop telling people to go to a website to save a multi-billion-dollar deal. Nobody cares what you have to say. There will be nothing that we have to say or any website that will be visited. There are, I don’t want to say the exact names, but these people (hands up high), let’s put our swords down. Let’s put our swords down for the good of sports."
He added:
“We need each other. A lot of people saying ‘greedy corporations,’ it’s like, yeah. We need each other, especially with where sports are right now. And we’re in the middle of it, so let’s get it done. And stop asking me to go to a website. I don’t want to do that, so stop... all you’re doing is pissing everybody off even more. So it’s like, let’s just not do that.”
You can watch McAfee addressing the dispute at the 1:20 mark of this video:
It feels like this dispute is only going to continue and the victim in all of this will continue to be the fans who just want to watch the games on the service they've been paying for.
Hopefully the two sides can reach an agreement and hopefully the big names at ESPN can listen to McAfee and stop trying to tell viewers how they can help. Because this isn't on them. It's on two billion dollar companies that just want to make more money.
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