Posted on 04/30/2024 1:17:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason and Phil Simms will no longer co-host “The NFL Today” on CBS.
James Brown, Nate Burleson and Bill Cowher will remain on the show, and will be joined this season by former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and former Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt, according to the New York Post.
Brown, Cowher, Esiason and Simms were all at the end of their current contracts this year, leading many — including the Post — to speculate that changes might be in the wind for the show’s hosting lineup.
Esiason will remain as co-host on WFAN’s morning show, however, and in fact announced on the show that he had signed a long-term contract with the station.
Sean McManus, who was the CBS Sports chairman who hired Esiason back in 2001, is leaving that position this year, according to the Post.
“The guy who hired me back in 2001 was a guy by the name of Sean McManus, who was the CBS Sports Chairman,” Esiason said. “I never in my wildest dreams it would have lasted 22 years. With all the people that I’ve worked with CBS and the ‘NFL Today’ it’s been an amazing run.”
He added that his leaving was “more their decision than maybe mine,” according to the Post.
Simms, who had been with CBS even longer than Esiason, announced the news of his departure in a post to X.
“Great 26 yrs run with CBS SPORTS,” he wrote.
“Even though that part of my career is over I look forward to what is next,” he added.
Simms told the Post that he wasn’t sure what was next, but that he planned to say around professional football in some capacity.
“I’m never going to get out of it,” he said. “I don’t know what I’ll do if I don’t go back to CBS. But I’m definitely going to continue to work with or in the NFL — somewhere, somehow, whatever it is.
“I’m just not going to go, ‘OK, I’m done. I’m retired,'” Simms added.
Several X users suggested in response to Simms’ post that he and Esiason should launch a podcast together.
NFL Ping!...................
Time for new blood and crips
Is Romo next?.....................
AI can do it.
Well, there’s always Bob Costas looking for a job.......................
The “good” ones are looooooooong gone anyway.
2 old pros
Well there’s plenty more.
Maybe they’ll bring in Colin Crapperdick.
Aaron Rodgers may not last the year...................
Now...let us guess who will be replacing them. If they get replaced.
Umm, JJ Watt and Matt Ryan...it’s in the article
Not just old white guys. Those are two of the whitest white people you’ll ever see on television. LOL.
I quit watching the MFL when they went woke and bent the knee. This is a big nothing to me. FMFL and FJB.
C’mon, they kneeled, said the slogans, and everything! You can’t do this, NFL!
Corrupt, pandering and suicidal leadership in every industry.
Even in Chipolte culture.
i guess they got sacked.
i cannot wait until lamar jackson is ready to do the commentator role...
that is gonna be fun to watch.
“Boomer Esiason and Phil Simms” ?
They were big when I was last watching Professional Football, and that was many, many, many moons ago.
Turn the phreakin page. New blood is needed for new viewers.
FWIW- A kid born in 2006 is now 18 years old, and looks at the RWR years like you looked back at WWII.
Surprise, your Boss 429 is older than that kids Grandpa.
Too white
**Surprise, your Boss 429 is older than that kids Grandpa.**
I’m just skimming through this thread to see the devotees opinions on one of the many sports that are WAAAY overblown in real world importance. Your last line there is a clue to one of several things that are important: being able to keep the car running.....
Back in the days of Boss 429s, probably 3/4 of the guys and 1/4 of the girls I went to high school with knew at least the basics of how to keep those engines maintained.
Today it’s probably 1/8 of the guys and 1/32 of the girls. But they know a LOT about sports.
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