"I would like to be on the side of I think it's good to help countries and everything evolve - I think it's a good thing," he said on The Pat McAfee Show on Monday. "Like getting a chance to watch from afar - I've never been over there - what the WWE has done alongside Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince, god bless him, and everything they have going on there for their citizens, for their entertainment, for their day-to-day, for what life is like from what it was 10-15 years ago to what it is now, I think that's good for their society; good for their world.
"Now, granted, there's a lot of detractors to all of that. ‘You're doing business with people that ….' If we start digging in all those things, especially in all these different countries, like I think they're going to be able to find everywhere there's been mistakes. Obviously, bigger in some places than others - I get it. But watching their society evolve with the WWE and with sports and with entertainment and with us taking the game, like, I like the thought of bringing the world together and closer via sport."
"I enjoy the fact that golf was being utilized as something for Saudi Arabian folks to be interested in more American sports," McAfee adds. "I like the thought of sport bringing the world together because, ultimately, that's what I think sports are about. And if the NFL is able to take their game over there and receive a huge payment, a f*cking huge payment, I think it's good for the world as a whole. But, yes, that number and the amount of apostrophes that'll be on that one, I assume only goes up. Which is good for salary cap, good for the league."
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This story was originally published March 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM.