{"id":1809,"date":"2024-07-29T22:55:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T22:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2024-07-29T22:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T22:55:51","slug":"pat-mcafee-drops-giant-truth-bomb-on-the-highly-controversial-2024-olympics-opening-ceremony-that-caused-major-uproar-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee Drops Giant Truth Bomb On The Highly-Controversial 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony That Caused Major Uproar (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pat McAfee Drops Giant Truth Bomb On The Highly-Controversial 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony That Caused Major Uproar (VIDEO)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The popular sports personality\/occasional\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wwe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWE<\/a>\u00a0superstar and former\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0punter touched base on the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony during Monday\u2019s edition of his popular program, \u201cThe Pat McAfee Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s opening ceremonies featured performances from world-famous singers, including Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and Philippe Katerine. The opening ceremonies dew 28.6 million viewers alone on NBC and Peacock, per\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/olympics-2024-opening-ceremony-tv-ratings-1235960009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The drag queens\u2019 performance at the ceremonies resembled Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s \u201cLast Supper\u201d painting of Jesus Christ with the Twelve Apostles. The performance led to criticism from religious groups and well-known celebrities like Piers Morgan and\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u00a0kicker Harrison Butker. Paris Olympic organizers apologized and stated that there was never an intention to disrespect or offend religious groups.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the latest edition of his show, Pat McAfee opined that the Olympic ceremony should have simply kept their focus on the athletes and sporting competitions:<\/p>\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-1\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\">\n<p>\u201cWe need people that love sports being a part of sports happenings\u2026we need sports people around. Whenever we have the biggest platform for sports in competition happening once every four years, we need some sports people at least there to say, \u2018Hey this is a celebration.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2026We just want it to revolve around sport and we can\u2019t have the opening ceremony be a reason why people won\u2019t watch these athletes who have sacrificed everything about their lives to be great at something and only get to experience and celebrate once every four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need people that love sports being a part of sports happenings\u2026we need sports people around. Whenever we have the biggest platform for sports in competition happening once every four years, we need some sports people at least there to say, \u2018Hey this is a celebration.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2026We just want it to revolve around sport and we can\u2019t have the opening ceremony be a reason why people won\u2019t watch these athletes who have sacrificed everything about their lives to be great at something and only get to experience and celebrate once every four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat McAfee Drops Giant Truth Bomb On The Highly-Controversial 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony That Caused Major Uproar (VIDEO) The popular sports personality\/occasional\u00a0WWE\u00a0superstar and former\u00a0NFL\u00a0punter touched base on the 2024 Summer &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}