WFAN morning host Boomer Esiason joined the Manningcast during Monday Night Football yesterday, and mentioned how difficult the behind the scenes action is.
“It was a lot of fun last night,” Esiason said to open Tuesday’s edition of Boomer & Gio. “Now I know why it can tend to be a little choppy because there’s about a half a second delay between the conversation you’re having with both Eli and Peyton, and then on top of it, you’re trying to do a game while you’re trying to answer questions and you’ve got a monitor about the size of an iPad.”
The former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback said the size of the monitor was one of the biggest difficulties.
“On half that monitor, you see the three-box of the three people apart of the Manningcast, and on the other half of the monitor you see the football game. So you could barely see it,” he continued. “Meanwhile, Peyton and Eli are totally hooked up. Peyton out in Denver, Eli here in New Jersey. They have the big monitors and everything. They’re trying to do a game while talking to you. It was a lot of fun, I gotta say. It is distracting, I’ll stay with that. I didn’t barely see any of the game.”
Esiason, who hasn’t been shy about saying he doesn’t watch the broadcast, concluded by noting he got a message from the Manning patriarch after the game, who enjoyed the appearance.
“It was great. I had a good time with them, they’re funny, and right after I got done with them, I got a really nice text message from their dad, Archie, and Archie said ‘Me and Olivia sit here and watch these every week. We rate the guests and you get five stars.”
