Upon news of onetime WWE commentator Pat McAfee moving his talk show to ESPN in a new multi-million dollar deal, many viewers expressed strong disapproval of the change. During Thursday’s edition of “The Pat McAfee Show,” McAfee and his co-hosts addressed the online backlash, noting that some Twitter users referred to them as “sellouts.” McAfee admitted that he didn’t expect the announcement to draw such a negative reaction.

“I think the reason why I did not expect it is because – it didn’t even cross my mind,” McAfee said. “At this stage, and we’re young, obviously, we’re 20 years younger than pretty much everybody else that’s on TV at this stage, so we are young, but I feel like our people were the ones that were most mad.”

McAfee then suggested that his long-time supporters have a little more faith in him and his business decisions.

“We have a good history, do we not?” he asked.