Eli Manning, Mike Francesa team up to spoof infamous WFAN call about Giants
Ten years after a WFAN caller infamously asked Mike Francesa whether the New York Giants and San Francisco Giants have an annual get-together over their shared name and got ridiculed for it, the event came to fruition in hilarious fashion.
With the San Francisco Giants in town to play the Mets over the weekend, stars Logan Webb and Matt Chapman stopped by for a meetup with Eli Manning, former Pro-Bowl offensive lineman Shaun O'Hara and Francesa himself as part of a promotion for 'The Eli Manning Show.'
'Alright, we're just back for the annual Giants-Giants meetup,' Manning deadpanned in a video posted to his X account. 'This is a yearly tradition where the San Francisco Giants are in town playing the Mets, so of course all the Giants players get together for a little dinner and orange juice, a little brunch as you call it, before they go play a game.'
Manning was riffing off the original call from 'Dan in Warwick,' which instantly went viral when it took place in 2015.
3 Shaun O'Hara (left), Eli Manning (front), Logan Webb (back) and Matt Chapman (right) at the Giant-Giant meetup.
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3 From left to right: Matt Chapman, Logan Webb, Mike Francesa, Shaun O'Hara and Eli Manning.
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'Has there ever been a franchise-to-franchise, or maybe even player-to-player get-together when San Francisco comes to New York? Do they ever say hi, maybe go out to dinner or something?' the caller asked.
A bewildered Francesa then lit into the caller in a sports radio rant for the ages.
'Do you think because they're Giants they're like brothers or something?' the longtime WFAN host responded. 'That might be the weirdest question I've gotten in a long time.'
'Yeah, as a matter of fact they have the Giant picnic, they hold it over in Totowa, I think it is,' Francesa added in a sarcastic rant. 'And then they have the Giant relay race and the Giant raffle, and then they all get together for the Giant breakfast the next morning and then they go their separate ways.'
3 Mike Francesa during his 2015 rant about the suggested meetup between the New York and San Francisco Giants.
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There was no raffle, picnic or relay race, but there was indeed a breakfast — Webb, Chapman, Manning and O'Hara sat in a dining room and enjoyed orange juice and a spread of breakfast foods.
In a video posted to the New York Giants' social media accounts, Francesa walks into the room with the four players enjoying their joint breakfast, shaking his head and saying with a smile: 'They really do get together!'
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