Pat McAfee tells a 2013 Colts-era story about “friendly fire” between teammates LaRon Landry and Reggie Wayne

Pat McAfee, a former Indianapolis Colts punter and an NFL All-Pro, revisited one of those old locker-room stories that sound too odd to be true until you realize it was apparently rooted in real film-room logic and real practice behavior. In a segment on The Pat McAfee Show, McAfee described a Colts-era walkthrough incident that he said involved “friendly fire” between teammates during an early-season practice, a moment he framed as something the Colts can now treat as an amusing anecdote.

McAfee’s account, as described in the report, places the incident in the 2013 timeframe, when Colts safety LaRon Landry was a new teammate and veteran wide receiver Reggie Wayne was already a centerpiece of the offense. According to the description, Landry, in an on-field moment meant for positioning and timing, “unnecessarily” laid out Wayne during a walk-through, an action that would have been unnecessary by design in a session that is not supposed to play out like full-speed contact work.

What made the story stick, McAfee said, was not only that it happened, but that it reportedly happened in a setting where everyone should have been adjusting to the same understanding of intensity. Walk-throughs are typically used to install concepts and sharpen timing without the same level of physical risk, so a late or exaggerated action stands out immediately to the players on the field. In the report, McAfee characterized Landry’s move as a “debut statement,” suggesting the incident may have been part confidence and part misread of the appropriate level of aggression in that specific session.

The recollection also includes a detail that brings it from the realm of anecdotes into the realm of “this was handled as real team business.” The report says the incident was later confirmed by former Colts head coach Chuck Pagano, tying McAfee’s version of events to at least one additional internal witness. That confirmation matters in sports storytelling because it suggests the moment was discussed, not merely dismissed, even if the current tone is light.

From a football perspective, the episode reads as a reminder of how quickly teammates can learn each other’s boundaries and habits, even in non-contact environments. A veteran like Wayne, known for consistent route work and timing, would be especially sensitive to how the defense and physicality of the moment affect his spacing. Landry’s approach, meanwhile, would have been shaped by his own background and instincts, and a new teammate often sets the tone before everyone catches up to what he considers “normal” intensity in a given period.

For McAfee, telling the story now is also a way of linking eras of Colts football through shared personalities. Wayne and Pagano are part of the franchise’s broader modern narrative, and Landry’s arrival represented a roster chapter that fans still recognize for its mix of veteran experience and sharp defensive mindset. The story’s humor, then, is built on context: it is not a scandal and it is not framed as wrongdoing, but as an awkward moment that later became a recognizable team memory.

Looking ahead, the only real “watch” here is how the NFL keeps surfacing its own micro-histories through player media. McAfee’s show has become a recurring outlet for that kind of behind-the-scenes recollection, and stories like this tend to recur whenever former teammates reunite or when someone asks, “What did people actually do during practice?” The details can change from retelling to retelling, but the underlying theme stays consistent: even walkthroughs have stakes in chemistry, and sometimes chemistry starts with an accident you can laugh about years later.