Colin Cowherd thought about hopping into bed with the Saudis.
During the latest installment of “The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast,” the Fox Sports host told The Post’s Andrew Marchand that he turned down a six-figure offer to work with LIV Golf — and revealed the price he would have accepted to do business with the Saudi-funded league, which is now merging with the PGA Tour in a shocking move.
“Listen, when I was offered a situation where there was a six-figure offer to one of my shows, and I would’ve been paid cause I have a revenue share with a couple different people,” said Cowherd, who filled in as co-host on the podcast for John Ourand.
“My takeaway was, I had known people with a connection to 9/11. I lived out east for 10 years and I was just like, ‘God, if they knew I took money from this, how would they think of me?’
“I decided, yeah, I just wasn’t comfortable with it. Now, if it would’ve been $10 million, I’d have probably taken it. $20 million? $30 million? So, I didn’t want to judge because I knew I felt bad about it. But we all have a price. Right?”
Cowherd offered a similar sentiment when discussing LIV Golf on his podcast last June.
“Everybody is morally flexible,” he said at the time.
“Would you take $150 million if it was offered? I’m saying you would and you’d validate or rationalize the reasons.”
On Tuesday, the PGA Tour announced the unification with the Greg Norman-led LIV Golf circuit — ending a nearly two-year contentious battle that divided the sport and its pros.
The merger, which reportedly will take effect in 2024, will also include the European DP World Tour.
Shortly after Tuesday’s news broke, 9/11 Families United — a coalition of families and survivors of the 2001 terrorist attacks — said in a statement they are “shocked and deeply offended” by the merger.
“The PGA and [commissioner Jay] Monahan appear to have become just more paid Saudi shills, taking billions of dollars to cleanse the Saudi reputation,” the group said in part.
Monahan, whose previous stance vehemently condemned the Saudi-backed league, supported the families and survivors of 9/11 when they took issue with golfers defecting to LIV in 2022.
9/11 Families United sent a scathing letter to representatives of LIV Golf stars Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, and Kevin Na last June, accusing them of sportswashing and betraying the United States.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers from 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia.
Cowherd said Tuesday on his FS1 show, “The Herd Live,” that he was offered six figures to work with LIV Golf.
“By the way, I was offered six figures to do some reads for the LIV Golf tour. I didn’t accept it,” Cowherd said. “But, but, I didn’t badmouth other hosts that did. That’s the difference.
“I was offered six figures to do stuff with LIV Golf, I was invited to tournaments, I said ‘no thank you.’
“But I didn’t lecture sportscasters that did, I didn’t lecture anybody that did. I’m not in their shoes, I don’t pay their taxes, I don’t have their life, I don’t know what’s going on.”
According to the PGA Tour, the Saudi Public Investment Fund “will make a capital investment” into the new super tour, which has yet to be named.