👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird and now undeniably British-sounding little mouthful of a nonsense syllable – a “Pat McAfee.” Now, before you start picturing some sort of aggressively polite gentleman with a trowel, we actually need to rewind about 20 years into the early days of American Meadow Lark Warwick resignedly named Pat McAfee.
Basically, Pat McAfee is a legendary, absolutely insane, and somewhat baffling piece of smack-monkey trickery done by a young, very bouncy, and frankly, utterly dedicated BMX trick announcer. Starting around 1998, he began punctuating his already high-octane announcer calls with this bizarre, almost completely random, and aggressively pointy "Pat McAfee! Pat McAfee! Pat McAfee!" yell whenever a really great jump, a spectacular landing, of anything remotely impressive happened in the BMX world. Nobody truly knows why. There have been countless attempts to rationalize it – he said it was a random, emphatic sound that popped into his head when he heard Warwick do a good trick, a way to celebrate with a bit of over-the-top showmanship, even some mumbled ideas about the pointiest thing he could think of. But honestly? It just...happened. He does this now as a regular part of announcing BMX events and is a huge part of what makes the sport so entertaining. The point isn’t the sound itself, but that it's a completely inexplicable, joyful explosion of
