Being Mike Francesa means voicing provocative opinions to millions on something like a daily basis.
He said he wasn't retiring, so he always planned to be back in the public eye one way or another. But I think he's realizing that talk show hosts have very ephemeral careers. They're huge while their shows are on but soon forgotten when the show is over, with very few exceptions. (Who remembers Arthur Godfrey today? Merv Griffin? Dick Cavett sort of lives on because the NY Times will sometimes post video from his show. Morton Downey Jr.?) It's not like being an actor, where your performances survive you. You're here and gone.
Francesa was here, now he's gone, but he wants to be sure we don't forget about him while he figures how out to be "here" again.
I don't think he was on great terms with CBS management, but I would not be at all surprised if both sides find a way to make up around then and get him back on WFAN.
But the big picture is: WFAN has to develop potential substitutes and successors. And he doesn't make that easy, because he's so arrogant.
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I don't think he was on great terms with CBS management, but I would not be at all surprised if both sides find a way to make up around then and get him back on WFAN.
But the big picture is: WFAN has to develop potential substitutes and successors. And he doesn't make that easy, because he's so arrogant.
Well, yeah as I stated in my "bizarre thread" last week, his moronic speech was very childish and lame. If you printed out his speech read all the things he said to yourself and it sounded as if everything was prepared and written by a bunch high school or middle school boys. I don't mind the cursing, whatever. It's Philadelphia, they pride themselves that way and a Phillies player cursed in 2008 when they won. We get it, you were the underdogs.
Some guy from New York? Outside of that smug clown Merrill Reese, who is really known for sports radio in Philly that isn't a sports player? Hes "some guy" but yet they took it to heart on what he said. Great article because he didn't say anything pro-New York, he even went after Lebron James for the same thing. What's the issue here?
And wow for a fan base, football team and city that has to go well out of their way to declare to everyone else they "don't care" what people think about them, they sure seem to know how to cunt on about it when all of the above receives any form of criticism, no?
"Yeah, we're slime and everything else we like it that way, that's our identity...just don't judge us and call us out for it". I guess its just a way of playing it safe when you're so obnoxiously stupid.
He's stated he can't do anything until April and yet continues to know how to keep his name out there and relevant until then.
I'm not sure "relevant" means what you think it means.
Nope. He got it correct.
For a guy who has no issue with over scrutinizing other poster's words and threads (and not doing much of anything else here) you are the one who is missing the meaning of the world relevant.
You can try to do all your usual unnecessary nitpicking you want here, but moespree is correct in his original post.
1. Mike doesn't even have a show yet, right? Yet he is riling up a Philly journalist (and I'm sure a decent amount of Eagle fans, too) enough with his comments made on someone else's show reacting to a professional football player sounding off like a 12 year old in his whiny victory speech after he won the Super Bowl.
2. Any news on what Francesa says (whether you like him or you don't) generates tons of views and plenty of discussions here, still to this day. See this thread and look how many views it has over what Mike said already for God's sake.
3. Even you, yourself, came here oh so brilliant wizard. So, i'd just like to point out to you, by just coming on a thread about Mike, that he has enough relevance for you (because you clicked the link) to not only be interested in what he and others said but to leave a comment yourself adding to the discussion pile.
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He's stated he can't do anything until April and yet continues to know how to keep his name out there and relevant until then.
I'm not sure "relevant" means what you think it means.
Nope. He got it correct.
For a guy who has no issue with over scrutinizing other poster's words and threads (and not doing much of anything else here) you are the one who is missing the meaning of the world relevant.
You can try to do all your usual unnecessary nitpicking you want here, but moespree is correct in his original post.
1. Mike doesn't even have a show yet, right? Yet he is riling up a Philly journalist (and I'm sure a decent amount of Eagle fans, too) enough with his comments made on someone else's show reacting to a professional football player sounding off like a 12 year old in his whiny victory speech after he won the Super Bowl.
2. Any news on what Francesa says (whether you like him or you don't) generates tons of views and plenty of discussions here, still to this day. See this thread and look how many views it has over what Mike said already for God's sake.
3. Even you, yourself, came here oh so brilliant wizard. So, i'd just like to point out to you, by just coming on a thread about Mike, that he has enough relevance for you (because you clicked the link) to not only be interested in what he and others said but to leave a comment yourself adding to the discussion pile.
It was a pretty entertaining and unique speech for those who do not hate the Eagles. Never heard anything quite like it before, and doubt I'll hear anything similar for awhile. If somebody called out Coughlin (or Shurmur or whomever) as the worst coaching hire and then proceeded to win the Super Bowl.....you'd love for one of your guys to call him out exactly as Kelce did.
I'm not immune to the bias either. Had that speech been done by Michael Bennett or Richard Sherman, I'd hate it too.
But I also agree with Francesa about the F-word in the speech. I honestly don't think that a respectable person cusses like that in a statement to the public. What a fuckwad.
It was a pretty entertaining and unique speech for those who do not hate the Eagles. Never heard anything quite like it before, and doubt I'll hear anything similar for awhile. If somebody called out Coughlin (or Shurmur or whomever) as the worst coaching hire and then proceeded to win the Super Bowl.....you'd love for one of your guys to call him out exactly as Kelce did.
I'm not immune to the bias either. Had that speech been done by Michael Bennett or Richard Sherman, I'd hate it too.
You couldn't have been any more wrong with this post. Holy shit. Re-read above what I wrote and that's a reply to what you said.
I mean I've never been to the West Coast so I want to say I don't know about those teams, however you jumped ahead yourself and made your comment thinking you know what it is like as a fan in the NFC East, so I'm going to go ahead and state openly I clearly doubt Seattle fans can equate to what Philly fans find appealing and how they act. Sometimes I sit and wonder how even the Rams, 49ers, Seahawks and Cardinals all have a rivalry. What do they argue about? None of those games are interesting enough for anyone to care about and are always the "other" game nobody watches at 4PM when its Green Bay vs Dallas or whoever. Yes and you had your sliver of relevance within the division with 49ers-Seahawks for a couple years but I couldn't think of a less relevant division to me. Maybe in all of football? Maybe the AFC East because its the Patriots and everyone sucks, but its still Boston-NY. Taylor Swift- Kanye West is more appealing than Seahawks-49ers.
Im not saying I don't curse, that wasn't the main issue for me because I do all the time but yeah if on this end, that was Bennett doing that same exact speech I wouldn't like it either because he would still sound like a 13 year old boy who was given an open mic and started cursing in front of his classmates at school. Mix that with the repetitive underdog "nobody picked us" narrative that was stale 10 years ago. So "fucking" edgy. It's the NFL, underdogs win all the time...
Also re-read my OP on the thread regarding Kecle's speech in the other thread. It's on my profile. I don't think it's us being biased of of any sort. Just you don't understand.
As much as I hate the Eagles, that was an unbelievable speech given the circumstance (no SB in 50 years). It was so well done. I hate to say it as a Giants fan, but it was really good especially off the cuff. Could have done without the profanity, but that was a minor, minor part of the speech.
Lets just say that if Shaun O’hara had use that speech in 2008 you would all have been gaga over it.....no doubt.
He said he wasn't retiring, so he always planned to be back in the public eye one way or another. But I think he's realizing that talk show hosts have very ephemeral careers. They're huge while their shows are on but soon forgotten when the show is over, with very few exceptions. (Who remembers Arthur Godfrey today? Merv Griffin? Dick Cavett sort of lives on because the NY Times will sometimes post video from his show. Morton Downey Jr.?) It's not like being an actor, where your performances survive you. You're here and gone.
Francesa was here, now he's gone, but he wants to be sure we don't forget about him while he figures how out to be "here" again.
But the big picture is: WFAN has to develop potential substitutes and successors. And he doesn't make that easy, because he's so arrogant.
I thought his outfit was a "Get out of Jail Free" card. What did they expect a guy dressed like that was going to say?
Hot takes like this are the only time I don't miss having Mike on the radio anymore.
I'm not sure "relevant" means what you think it means.
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mikes on will be back on the fan, 2-6,just sayin
I don't think he was on great terms with CBS management, but I would not be at all surprised if both sides find a way to make up around then and get him back on WFAN.
But the big picture is: WFAN has to develop potential substitutes and successors. And he doesn't make that easy, because he's so arrogant.
they will need him back,badly
Russo was asked about this on his show and he said “he would not rule that out”
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he and the Dog are doing a one-time thing on MLB this Spring?
Russo was asked about this on his show and he said “he would not rule that out”
He is dressed like a mummer. Philly tradition. Let the dude have fun.
Some guy from New York? Outside of that smug clown Merrill Reese, who is really known for sports radio in Philly that isn't a sports player? Hes "some guy" but yet they took it to heart on what he said. Great article because he didn't say anything pro-New York, he even went after Lebron James for the same thing. What's the issue here?
And wow for a fan base, football team and city that has to go well out of their way to declare to everyone else they "don't care" what people think about them, they sure seem to know how to cunt on about it when all of the above receives any form of criticism, no?
"Yeah, we're slime and everything else we like it that way, that's our identity...just don't judge us and call us out for it". I guess its just a way of playing it safe when you're so obnoxiously stupid.
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He's stated he can't do anything until April and yet continues to know how to keep his name out there and relevant until then.
I'm not sure "relevant" means what you think it means.
Nope. He got it correct.
For a guy who has no issue with over scrutinizing other poster's words and threads (and not doing much of anything else here) you are the one who is missing the meaning of the world relevant.
You can try to do all your usual unnecessary nitpicking you want here, but moespree is correct in his original post.
1. Mike doesn't even have a show yet, right? Yet he is riling up a Philly journalist (and I'm sure a decent amount of Eagle fans, too) enough with his comments made on someone else's show reacting to a professional football player sounding off like a 12 year old in his whiny victory speech after he won the Super Bowl.
2. Any news on what Francesa says (whether you like him or you don't) generates tons of views and plenty of discussions here, still to this day. See this thread and look how many views it has over what Mike said already for God's sake.
3. Even you, yourself, came here oh so brilliant wizard. So, i'd just like to point out to you, by just coming on a thread about Mike, that he has enough relevance for you (because you clicked the link) to not only be interested in what he and others said but to leave a comment yourself adding to the discussion pile.
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He's stated he can't do anything until April and yet continues to know how to keep his name out there and relevant until then.
I'm not sure "relevant" means what you think it means.
Nope. He got it correct.
For a guy who has no issue with over scrutinizing other poster's words and threads (and not doing much of anything else here) you are the one who is missing the meaning of the world relevant.
You can try to do all your usual unnecessary nitpicking you want here, but moespree is correct in his original post.
1. Mike doesn't even have a show yet, right? Yet he is riling up a Philly journalist (and I'm sure a decent amount of Eagle fans, too) enough with his comments made on someone else's show reacting to a professional football player sounding off like a 12 year old in his whiny victory speech after he won the Super Bowl.
2. Any news on what Francesa says (whether you like him or you don't) generates tons of views and plenty of discussions here, still to this day. See this thread and look how many views it has over what Mike said already for God's sake.
3. Even you, yourself, came here oh so brilliant wizard. So, i'd just like to point out to you, by just coming on a thread about Mike, that he has enough relevance for you (because you clicked the link) to not only be interested in what he and others said but to leave a comment yourself adding to the discussion pile.
Give it a rest. It was tongue in cheek.
Or is that a blog?
It was a pretty entertaining and unique speech for those who do not hate the Eagles. Never heard anything quite like it before, and doubt I'll hear anything similar for awhile. If somebody called out Coughlin (or Shurmur or whomever) as the worst coaching hire and then proceeded to win the Super Bowl.....you'd love for one of your guys to call him out exactly as Kelce did.
I'm not immune to the bias either. Had that speech been done by Michael Bennett or Richard Sherman, I'd hate it too.
But I also agree with Francesa about the F-word in the speech. I honestly don't think that a respectable person cusses like that in a statement to the public. What a fuckwad.
Wow that’s a stupid take. Are you a parent or past the age of 14?
+1.
That speech and outfit ENDEARED Kelce to Philly fans. They will be riotous whenever he gets cut.
It was a pretty entertaining and unique speech for those who do not hate the Eagles. Never heard anything quite like it before, and doubt I'll hear anything similar for awhile. If somebody called out Coughlin (or Shurmur or whomever) as the worst coaching hire and then proceeded to win the Super Bowl.....you'd love for one of your guys to call him out exactly as Kelce did.
I'm not immune to the bias either. Had that speech been done by Michael Bennett or Richard Sherman, I'd hate it too.
You couldn't have been any more wrong with this post. Holy shit. Re-read above what I wrote and that's a reply to what you said.
I mean I've never been to the West Coast so I want to say I don't know about those teams, however you jumped ahead yourself and made your comment thinking you know what it is like as a fan in the NFC East, so I'm going to go ahead and state openly I clearly doubt Seattle fans can equate to what Philly fans find appealing and how they act. Sometimes I sit and wonder how even the Rams, 49ers, Seahawks and Cardinals all have a rivalry. What do they argue about? None of those games are interesting enough for anyone to care about and are always the "other" game nobody watches at 4PM when its Green Bay vs Dallas or whoever. Yes and you had your sliver of relevance within the division with 49ers-Seahawks for a couple years but I couldn't think of a less relevant division to me. Maybe in all of football? Maybe the AFC East because its the Patriots and everyone sucks, but its still Boston-NY. Taylor Swift- Kanye West is more appealing than Seahawks-49ers.
Im not saying I don't curse, that wasn't the main issue for me because I do all the time but yeah if on this end, that was Bennett doing that same exact speech I wouldn't like it either because he would still sound like a 13 year old boy who was given an open mic and started cursing in front of his classmates at school. Mix that with the repetitive underdog "nobody picked us" narrative that was stale 10 years ago. So "fucking" edgy. It's the NFL, underdogs win all the time...
Also re-read my OP on the thread regarding Kecle's speech in the other thread. It's on my profile. I don't think it's us being biased of of any sort. Just you don't understand.
Lets just say that if Shaun O’hara had use that speech in 2008 you would all have been gaga over it.....no doubt.
Francessa is an idiot!!
Guess what, that's what they want...but hey yeah compare the Giants winning their third Super Bowl to a team tortured for 58 years or so.
Ok.