ESPN NFL analyst Rex Ryan discussed the outcome of the controversial call during the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills game on Get Up Monday, where he spoke Toney’s foot just being over the line of scrimmage. He made a joke about his widely reported foot fetish, eliciting host Mike Greenberg to try to get things back on track, much to the dismay of Fred Toucher of 98.5 The Sports Hub.
“Whenever anything interesting happens on ESPN, the other people on ESPN that aren’t the person who’s interesting do their best to ruin it by gesticulating wildly,” Toucher said. “You’ll recall when Mad Dog talked about, ‘I take a gummy and then I have a cocktail; I take a half of gummy and then I have another gummy!’…. so Marcus Spears is like, ‘Oh, can he say that?,’ and you’re like, ‘Well, marijuana’s legal.’”
Fred Toucher said he enjoys watching Ryan on television, stating that many of his prop bets have made him money on Sunday mornings. The part of the ordeal that he took issue with was Greenberg, who said, “See, now there is no way for us to do a serious show if you want to go there, Rex.”
On previous occasions, Toucher has referred to ESPN as simply consisting of three people – Greenberg; Stephen A. Smith; and Pat McAfee – and criticized the network’s coverage. In listening back to the clip on the show, Toucher evinced that Greenberg was genuinely annoyed by what he perceived to be tomfoolery taking place on the set.
“He was actually perturbed,” Toucher stated. “He didn’t like that hooting around [and] he didn’t like that horsing around.”
“‘I’m so used to being vanilla for my entire career, I want to make sure I stay in my lane,’” added anchor Jon Wallach, speaking about Greenberg.
Show contributor Rob “Hardy” Poole followed up on this remark by asking Fred Toucher what he would have asked Ryan in response to what he said. It led him to reveal that he would have wanted to gain more information about his interest in feet to further play along with the topic.
“I realize by television I’d be a little hamstrung – I couldn’t get totally into it – but to be completely honest with you, if he said that I would have been like, ‘Rex, what is it that you like so much about feet?’…. That’s what I would say, ‘Give me an elevator pitch on feet.’”
