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New York Post
04-08-2025
- 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!'
New York Post
22-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Mike Francesa shreds Tom Thibodeau after Knicks' playoff loss to Pistons: ‘This is not an offense'
The Knicks' problems didn't start in their Game 2 loss to the Pistons, according to New York sports radio legend Mike Francesa. The former WFAN great criticized coach Tom Thibodeau's offensive scheme, which he believes is too centered on point guard Jalen Brunson and is holding them back. Advertisement 'The stagnant four guys watching one guy play basketball is not an offense, and I don't care what your name is,' Francesa said on his Bet Rivers podcast after Monday's game. 'And Brunson is not Michael Jordan.' Brunson tallied one-third of the team's 81 shots from the floor in Monday's 100-94 home loss, scoring 37 points in 44 minutes on 12-of-27 shooting. He made 9-of-11 attempts from the foul line. Mikal Bridges added 19 points and the three other starters each tallied 10, but the bench provided just eight points with Game 1 hero Cameron Payne notably playing just four minutes. Advertisement 'If this offense is just going to be Brunson bouncing the basketball for 15 seconds and then if he's double-teamed he'll flip a pass to somebody and hope they hit a long 3, or he's going to find a way to get to the foul line. Dive against a guy and get free shots. Flop to the ground,' Francesa said. 'How many times in one night is Brunson on the ground? 32? It's not appealing basketball. It's all about Brunson. Why do you think the other teams think he flops? He's on the ground the whole game. That's half the Knicks' offense.' Advertisement Francesa adds that it doesn't matter if the Knicks advance past the Pistons because if 'four guys are going to be standing around watching Brunson, you're never going to beat a good team. You're never going to beat the Celtics.' The winner of the Knicks-Pistons series will face the victor from the Celtics-Magic. Boston, the defending champs, is heavily favored and easily took Game 1 of the series with Game 2 on Wednesday night. Follow The Post's coverage of the Knicks in the 2025 NBA Playoffs Sports+ subscribers: Sign up for Inside the Knicks to get daily newsletter coverage and join Expert Take for insider texts about the series. 4 Mike Francesa projected that Jalen Brunson fell to the ground 32 times on Monday night. Getty Images Advertisement The Sports Pope would prefer the Knicks to feed the ball to Karl-Anthony Towns, especially with the Pistons missing Isaiah Stewart Monday. Towns only scored 10 points in Game 2 and bizarrely did not attempt a shot in the fourth quarter. 'How can Thibs be there, be coaching that game, and not get the ball in the low box to Towns at some point?' Francesa asked. 'Towns had eight points in the first quarter. He had 10 points in the game.' 4 Mike Francesa unloads on Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau. YouTube Mike Francesa Podcast Thibodeau and Towns shifted blame elsewhere for the poor performances and loss, with Thibodeau taking aim at the referees for a significant discrepancy in free throws Detroit received 34 free throw attempts compared to the Knicks' 19. 'Obviously, huge discrepancy in free throws. Huge. I gotta take a look at that, alright?' Thibodeau said after the game. 'So … I don't understand how on one side you talk about direct line drives, the guys get fouled and it's not being called, right? And look, I really don't give a crap how they call the game as long as it's consistent on both sides. So [Cade] Cunningham's driving and there's marginal contact and he's getting to the line. Then Jalen [Brunson] deserves to be getting to the line, it's really that simple.' Advertisement 4 Jalen Brunson scored 37 points in the Knicks loss. Getty Images Meanwhile, Towns brought up a lack of execution. 'Just trying to have the game do what it does, just executing what we talked about,' Towns said of his lack of involvement down the stretch. 'I thought we got some great shots, some great looks, you live with those kinds of great shots and great looks, especially when you've fought back in the game.' 4 Tom Thibodeau took issue with the referees on Monday night. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post Advertisement The Knicks head to Detroit for Game 3 on Thursday, where they will look to get more guys involved with the Pistons now owning home-court advantage.. 'This is not an offense,' Francesa said. 'You can't play this way. There is so much wrong with this game offensively. First of all, the Knicks are better when they move the ball with this team and when they push the ball. They're much better in the open floor when everyone is involved.'
