In New York City, approximately 32,000 cyclists will gather this Sunday to take part in the TD Five Boro Bike Tour. The annual program takes participants through parts of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island and Manhattan to benefit charities around the city and teaches citizens how to safely exercise on the streets. Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti of WFAN will take part in the proceedings, racing on “Team Boomer” to raise both awareness and funding for cystic fibrosis.
“A couple of warm days over the weekend, which is much needed for us, on Sunday here in the city for the Five Boro Bike Tour,” Giannotti said. “We will shake off our stiffness from the game last night to ride a bike 40 miles in the city.”
CBS Sports Network will provide coverage of Esiason and Giannotti’s journey in the race, sending two camera people to capture the day. Yet these media members are not considered to be a part of “Team Boomer” itself, and will therefore be racing independently. Producer Stephen Waldron joined Boomer & Gio on WFAN via phone to explain how the network will go about presenting the occurrence.
“They’re going to try to follow you around as much as they can,” Waldron explained. “They’re in the race for themselves.”
Once Esiason and Giannotti discovered that the camera people are not a part of “Team Boomer,” they asked what will be done to account for the head start the team itself is receiving. Waldron replied that the network is trying to coordinate with the event to allow them to have a head start themselves, to which Giannotti said, “Okay, yeah, good luck with that.”
