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
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
Related pods: Christopher (Mad Dog) Russo … Chris Oliviero … Jason McCourty …Booger McFarland … Eli Manning
Sponsor: WSC Sports … Tell them Marchand sent you
On-deck on Tuesday: “Everybody Loves Sports Media” with Marchand/Meterparel
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