Resident Jets fan and WFAN midday host Brandon Tierney couldn’t help himself Thursday morning.
The New York Jets sent a helmet and jersey to WFAN to showcase what uniform combination the team would wear during this weekend’s game, addressing it to former Jets quarterback and WFAN morning host Boomer Esiason. Co-host Gregg Giannotti sported the combo for social media pictures.
Tierney wanted to become the owner of the helmet, and asked what he needed to do to get it, while driving into the station.
“I’m thinking it’s Gio’s helmet. I’m stuck in traffic and I ask Gio ‘How much do you want for the helmet?’. I wanna give it to my son. I want to put it in the man cave, but they don’t need to know that. He texts me right back during the break and said you’ve gotta run through Boomer. They sent it to Boomer. Ok.
“So I text Boomer shortly thereafter. I text Boomer ‘Hey Booms. What would you like for the helmet?’ and I don’t even know if he texted me back but I hear them on the air talking about it. It got all twisted and distorted. I got some schmuck from Newark calling in saying I’m cheap. Long story short, they want me to do some things to earn the helmet. Which I respect; have a little fun. Gio comes up with eat 12 donuts. There’s no chance I’m doing that. That’s not me. I’m not doing that.”
Esiason agreed to give Tierney the helmet…but it came at a cost.
“Boomer says — listen to what you’re partner is now roped into. I should have just bought the damn helmet. I am now one of the captains for Boomer’s 40-mile, five-borough bike race on May 1st. I don’t have a bike, and I don’t know if I can do 40 miles. I’m gonna do it! I’m gonna do it! But 40 miles, dude. How am I doing 40 miles?”
The Boomer Esiason Foundation does an annual bike tour of the five boroughs of New York, raising money to fight cystic fibrosis.
Tierney’s co-host, Tiki Barber, told him riding a bike on bridges is difficult because of the incline. Tierney responded by saying he “almost dropped dead” while riding a bike over the Golden Gate Bridge due to the incline, but also because he’s scared of heights.
Barber later added he would join Tierney on the bike tour to help raise money for the organization and help train his co-host.
