Pat McAfee has discovered Winnipeg, though he confesses he still could not find it on a map if he had to.
Speaking on his sports program, The Pat McAfee Show, on Monday, the ESPN host referenced Sunday’s Stanley Cup playoff game in Manitoba’s capital city — and the support fans showed in the Jets’ 7-6 win.
“There was a game in Winnipeg that was fantastic,” McAfee said. “And Winnipeg, I couldn’t even. … If there was an empty map of Canada and they said, ‘Pat, go ahead and pin this particular whatever, mountie, a horse, pin this horse … and it’s big so there’s a lot of different options … I could not guess, for the life of me, where the hell it is.
“But I do know it’s a place I’d like to be sometime.”
McAfee was impressed with Winnipeg’s white-towel-waving effort, aka “The White Out,” a tradition in the city for Jets games that dates back to the late 1980s.
“Look at this place going bananas!” McAfee said. “Full white out, full commitment!”
The Jets responded on Twitter by offering to help McAfee find Winnipeg by inviting him to a game.
During the break, McAfee said he’d accessed a map and learned that Winnipeg “is above Minnesota and North Dakota,” adding, “I thought it was way lefter.”