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New York Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
WFAN finds Dan in Warwick after Giants meetup spoof — and he didn't sound happy
It appears that 10 years later, Dan in Warwick really isn't all that interested in the potential Giants-Giants meetup. The famous WFAN caller, who stupefied former WFAN host Mike Francesa in 2014 by asking him if the New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants ever get together in honor of sharing the same name, instead acted as if the topic meant nothing to him in two bizarre spots with the station Monday. His call came after Francesa, ex-football Giants Eli Manning and Shaun O'Hara, and current baseball Giants Logan Webb and Matt Chapman came together for a viral video spoofing the idea. 4 Logan Webb (l), Matt Chapman (second from l), Mike Francesa (c), Shaun O'Hara (second from r) and Eli Manning (r) combined for the spoof video. @Giants/X Dan first chatted with Sal Licata during the midday show, and in a bad omen, the interview began with him calling the boisterous hot-taker Evan, thinking he was speaking with Evan Roberts, and also mentioning how he did not have much time since he was leaving Vermont. The WFAN caller acknowledged his call more than a decade ago being a prank, but did not know why his call had suddenly resurfaced since 'I'm not on social media much.' 'You know why we're calling you today, right?' Licata said. 'Nope,' Dan replied. Licata then described the video, while Dan bizarrely mentioned how he heard it was a 'pretty famous' call and mentioned an old cartoon of him featuring bleach and computers in the background. 'I'm not sure where we're going with that, but this is what you get when you talk to Dan in Warwick,' Licata said while laughing during the final few words. The talk then veered into how often Dan calls into the station, with the caller stating how he heard through the grapevine via his cousin that they wanted to talk to him. The weird conversation ended in less than two minutes. 'I really don't care to talk to Dan from Warwick,' Licata said, 'and clearly he doesn't seem interested at all.' Licata's show then played the clip of Francesa and Dan, before further driving home the point. 4 WFAN host Sal Licata. @sal_licata/X '…(Dan), who couldn't seem less interested in social media fame, his newfound viral fame or even talking with us for a few seconds here,' Licata said. 'I respect that, good for Dan, he had his prank 10 years ago, he did the job, and that's that. He did what he had to do. One of the most famous calls, if not now the most famous prank call to the FAN and doesn't care, God bless him.' Licata then laughed while mentioning the ridiculous situation. 'Like we're inconveniencing him,' Licata said. 'Sorry, Dan, did not mean to inconvenience you on this day, but we do appreciate your time.' Later in the day, during the afternoon drive with Shaun Morash and Tommy Lugauer filling in for Roberts and Tiki Barber, Dan had his second call-in. 4 WFAN's Shaun Morash. @ShaunMorash/X Morash noted that Dan seemed 'disinterested' earlier in the day and not as funny as one would expect for the person behind the epic prank. Dan said he only learned of the situation amid his Vermont exit — he was there for work — and talked to Licata right before he showered, leaving him with little time to spare. And then the interview got weird again. 4 WFAN's Tommy Lugauer. @TommyLugauer/X Morash asked him if the video and attention made him feel as if he had the best prank call ever, and Dan coldly responded: 'Not really, why?' Dan noted how he's not in the video while then asking if the hosts would be sending him money from the goof sketch. Morash and Lugauer could not believe Dan's reaction, with the latter trying to explain why he should be excited about the whole situation. 'I'm brilliant? Really, you're calling me brilliant for that call? I was just trolling Mike Francesa,' Dan said. 'I'm an eight-time consecutive class clown. I'm here for humor.' The pair asked if perhaps the prankster was trolling them and Licata before, but he insisted that's not the case before another sudden end to the call. Lugauer then noted how Dan had called the station twice, not the inverse. Said Morash: 'I can't believe he's gone 0-for-2 on calls.'
The Star
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Star
A Giant gathering: NY and SF teams serve up an answer to decade-old fan query
FILE PHOTO: Jul 14, 2025; Atlanta, GA, USA; National League pitcher Logan Webb (62) of the San Francisco Giants reacts during the 2025 Home Run Derby at Truist Park. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-Imagn Images/File Photo (Reuters) -Members of MLB's San Francisco Giants broke bread with former players from the NFL's New York Giants on Sunday, serving up a tasty punchline to a quirky, decade-old sports radio moment. Ten years ago, a caller known as "Dan in Warwick" phoned into Mike Francesa's sports talk radio show with a burning question: Did the baseball Giants - who moved from New York to San Francisco in 1958 - and the football Giants ever get together, since they once shared a city and a name? "What are you talking about?" Francesa replied, bewildered, before promptly ending the call. The odd inquiry lingered in sports lore, unanswered - until now. This weekend, as the San Francisco Giants were in town to play the New York Mets, current Giants stars Logan Webb and Matt Chapman met up for a meal with former New York Giants players Eli Manning and Shaun O'Hara. The scene was captured in a playful video, where Francesa himself opens a door to discover the two Giants squads enjoying a meal beneath a banner proclaiming their "Annual Meetup." The festivities included two-time Super Bowl champion Eli Manning watching a highlight reel of Webb's high school days as a quarterback. "I think you made the right choice to stick with baseball," Manning joked, prompting laughter from Webb. "I did, I did," Webb replied with a grin. The group even brainstormed ideas for next year's Giants gathering before it was revealed to be a promotion for the coming fifth season of the Eli Manning Show. "I was thinking next year we should have a picnic," Manning proposed. "We should do a relay race," Webb suggested. "Giants-Giants barbecue," Chapman chimed in. "Just Giants barbecue, I don't think you need both of them," said O'Hara. Meanwhile, the New York Giants put the spotlight back on the mysterious caller who started it all. "Dan in Warwick, you were right," the team posted on social media, sharing playful photos of the players together. After a decade, Dan's question finally had its answer - the Giants do get together, and now, they have the pictures to prove it. (Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Michael Perry)
Straits Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
A Giant gathering: NY and SF teams serve up an answer to decade-old fan query
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Members of MLB's San Francisco Giants broke bread with former players from the NFL's New York Giants on Sunday, serving up a tasty punchline to a quirky, decade-old sports radio moment. Ten years ago, a caller known as "Dan in Warwick" phoned into Mike Francesa's sports talk radio show with a burning question: Did the baseball Giants - who moved from New York to San Francisco in 1958 - and the football Giants ever get together, since they once shared a city and a name? "What are you talking about?" Francesa replied, bewildered, before promptly ending the call. The odd inquiry lingered in sports lore, unanswered - until now. This weekend, as the San Francisco Giants were in town to play the New York Mets, current Giants stars Logan Webb and Matt Chapman met up for a meal with former New York Giants players Eli Manning and Shaun O'Hara. The scene was captured in a playful video, where Francesa himself opens a door to discover the two Giants squads enjoying a meal beneath a banner proclaiming their "Annual Meetup." The festivities included two-time Super Bowl champion Eli Manning watching a highlight reel of Webb's high school days as a quarterback. "I think you made the right choice to stick with baseball," Manning joked, prompting laughter from Webb. "I did, I did," Webb replied with a grin. The group even brainstormed ideas for next year's Giants gathering before it was revealed to be a promotion for the coming fifth season of the Eli Manning Show. "I was thinking next year we should have a picnic," Manning proposed. "We should do a relay race," Webb suggested. "Giants-Giants barbecue," Chapman chimed in. "Just Giants barbecue, I don't think you need both of them," said O'Hara. Meanwhile, the New York Giants put the spotlight back on the mysterious caller who started it all. "Dan in Warwick, you were right," the team posted on social media, sharing playful photos of the players together. After a decade, Dan's question finally had its answer - the Giants do get together, and now, they have the pictures to prove it. REUTERS
New York Post
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Eli Manning, Mike Francesa team up to spoof infamous WFAN call about Giants
Somewhere, 'Dan in Warwick' is smiling. 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. @Giants/X 3 From left to right: Matt Chapman, Logan Webb, Mike Francesa, Shaun O'Hara and Eli Manning. @Giants/X '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. Chris Poulos/YouTube 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!'
