Boomer Esiason and former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher had a disagreement during the season opening edition of The NFL Today, and Esiason’s Boomer & Gio co-host Gregg Giannotti couldn’t help but bring the subject up during Monday morning’s show on WFAN.
“You and coach Cowher got legitimately into it on The NFL Today about the Steelers and the Bengals,” Gregg Giannotti, who has admitted to texting Boomer during the CBS pregame show, said. “There was some real tension there.”
“I got mad there because I thought there was a real bias towards the Steelers when talking about Mitch Trubisky. Timeout. The Bengals went to the Super Bowl last year!”, Esiason, a former Bengals quarterback, said. “What are we doing here? I understand Pittsburgh’s a popular team and a great franchise and has a great history and we love their coach but I thought we at CBS were a little too biased.”
Giannotti then noted when the cast of The NFL Today made their Super Bowl selections, Esiason got a shot in on Cowher.
“When Cowher picked who he picked, you said ‘I’m surprised you didn’t pick the Steelers’,” before Giannotti mocked Cowher by huffing and puffing.
“Sitting there watching these games, man, and that Pittsburgh game, he and I were yelling at each other,” Esiason said of Cowher.
He added the Bengals should have challenged a call that would have given them a touchdown instead of being place at the one yard line, was the source of his disagreement mid-game with the former Steelers coach.
