Marchand Sports Media Boomer Esiason & one of the greatest playing/media careers of all-time
In the 41-minute podcast, Boomer Esiason, who has had one of the great playing/media careers ever, is the guest on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” Here’s what you need to know:
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* When you combine a playing career with a media career, Boomer Esiason has to be at least be in the Top 10 all-time
* What it is like to work with Craig Carton and Gregg Giannotti
* How Esiason went from the field directly into the Monday Night Football booth
* What went wrong with Al Michaels and why a job Boomer thought would go 25 years instead went two
* How Al Michaels told Boomer not to mention Al Davis, which was the beginning of the end of Esiason’s stint on MNF
* Michaels, Dennis Miller and a PR near actual fight
* How Esiason questioned his decision to retire and join MNF
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* How he ended doing more Super Bowls than anyone ever because he was the top analyst on Westwood One Radio
* How Sean McManus and Joel Hollander were the best bosses he ever had
* The incredible story of how his World Ward II veteran father raised him following the death of Boomer’s mother when Boomer was just 7 years old
* How his son Gunnar has overcome cystic fibrosis
* How Boomer got in position to replace Imus
* His fun spots with Mike & the Mad Dog as the Jets’ quarterback and how he was regular on Imus
* How he told FAN he couldn’t work with Chris Russo
* Tryouts with Monica Crowley and Cris Collinsworth before Carton
* What was it like to work with Carton, whom Boomer called a “radio maven”
* The only real other candidate, besides Gio, to replace Carton was Adam Schein, who didn’t want to leave his other gigs
* How now CBS Sports president David Berson reminded Esiason in 2017 of the power of his WFAN show
* How Boomer turned down the afternoons because he, Jerry Recco, Al Dukes and Ed Scozzare wanted to stay in mornings
* If Boomer had gone to afternoons, it wouldn’t have been with Evan Roberts
* Carton telling Boomer he “humanized” him
* Boomer admits Phil Mushnick was right that there was “Weekend Boomer” and “Weekday Boomer” with his FAN and CBS jobs
* The friction between Mike & the Mad Dog and Carton blew up over a trivia question mishap
* This led to Carton’s Francesa impersonations that Boomer said were “definitely mean”
* Carton telling program director Mark Chernoff that since Boomer and Carton were No. 1, Carton could say what he wanted
* How long does Boomer want to be on WFAN for …
* Who are some of the names on the all-time combo of playing and media careers
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* On-deck on Tuesday: “Everybody Loves Sports Media” with Marchand/Meterparel
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