Former Mountaineer Is Wrestling With Success
The Wiz of Odds —
... If a career in the NFL doesn't pan out, Pat McAfee might have another avenue to success. The former West Virginia kicker recently made his debut in professional wrestling. ...
West Virginia's Pat McAfee is low-rent wrestling's first kicker/punter superstar
Dr. Saturday —
Physical reputation notwithstanding, kickers have always been regarded as eccentric and mentally tough as a byproduct of the job. Pat McAfee, a three-year starter at punter and kicker for West Virginia and a legitimate NFL hopeful, isn't unusual in that regard. He's unusual because he uses those traits to jump into the squared circle with a grown man known as "War Pig":
Still, the pig-masked man dressed in a bloody apron took 22-year-old McAfee's left leg and wrapped it around the post while the kicker writhed in pain on the blood-splattered canvas. He'd been smacked around for five minutes ...
WVU Kicker Is No Match for WAR PIG
The Sporting Blog —
WVU’s Pat McAfee is rated as the fourth or fifth best kicker in this year’s NFL draft, depending on who you’re asking. Regardless of where he gets drafted, or even if he doesn’t and gets scooped up as a free agent, he has a good chance of spending the next 10-15 years kicking footballs through uprights and keeping his uniform clean. But if that doesn’t work out, he always has community center pro wrestling to fall back on. ...
