In the 45-minute pod, Ian Eagle is the guest with Andrew Marchand. Eagle tells hilarious stories about his career, his calls and his family. And the jobs he almost took that would have changed his career.
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How interning for Mike Tirico was instrumental in his career
Eagle explains his classic "Ja-breaker,” Megan Thee Stallion and Seinfeld calls.
Marchand thinks the Seinfeld “real and spectacular” call may be the most creative of all-time
How “Oh, yeah!” was born
Eagle, who interned at WFAN and was a board-op early in his career, explained how he had the chance to succeed Chris Russo as Mike Francesa’s partner and to follow Mike Breen as the update man on “Imus in the Morning.” Eagle also shared how he first got on the air at FAN with a Stan Martin story
Eagle turned down a chance to call Mets’ games on TV
How Eagle’s career took off after the FAN break by becoming the pregame host of the Jets in 1993, followed by the Jets play-by-play job and radio/TV voice of the Nets before his CBS big break at 28 in 1998
The legendary Al McGuire initially told Eagle that he must change his name, and it got even more interesting from there
In 1993, he was very bummed out that he had to skip calling MTV’s “Sand Blast” because it conflicted with his honeymoon.
The “Sand Blast” job went to a famous actor
How he trained his son, NBC’s Noah, to be a play-by-player … or maybe he didn’t
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