Pat McAfee hilariously recalls Adam Vinatieri sending him to ‘holding camp’ before rookie season

Pat McAfee certainly has a knack for story-telling, and after taking a bit of a break from his normal duties with ESPN, he was in rare form this week at the NFL Combine.

McAfee joined the set of NFL Network and chopped it up on a number of topics, including one near and dear to him.

Namely, he discussed how much he did not necessarily want to be a holder at the NFL level. In fact, he even went to great lengths to avoid having to do so.

“I was a kicker in college, so I obviously couldn’t hold for myself,” Pat McAfee said. “But a lot of people though, well a couple people thought I was going to be a punter in the NFL, and if you’re a punter you have to hold.”

If you know anything about McAfee, of course, you know that his days as a professional were spent as a punter, not a kicker. So you probably have a decent idea where the story is headed.

“So Bill Polian asked me literally in the draft leadup, ‘Hey, you’ve held before? You’ve practiced before because you knew that there was a chance you were going to have to hold?'” McAfee said. “I said, ‘Absolutely, I used to do it like three days a week in practice in college and everything like that.’ I’d never done it once in my life.”