Shannon Sharpe recently said on his Nightcap podcast that he has made more money off his Katt Williams interview from YouTube and social media than any season he played in the NFL. Sharpe currently hosts Nightcap and also has his Club Shay Shay podcast, while also making frequent appearances on ESPN’s First Take.
Boomer and Gio hosts Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti brought the subject up this morning on WFAN and talked about what Sharpe has been able to do since leaving Skip Bayless and Undisputed on FS1 in June of last year. “I give that guy a lot of credit for creating another opportunity for himself and doing well at it,” Esiason said.
Giannotti added, “He doesn’t have one very popular podcast, he has two very popular podcasts and he is on ESPN as well.”
Esiason then went back to his time working with Sharpe at CBS when the two were both on The NFL Today, saying, “The behind the scenes Shannon is hilarious…The amount of knowledge that he has on so many different aspects of pop culture and sports…the stories that he used to tell, we made fun of his college, he said he went to a strip mall college…just the funny stuff that would come out of his mouth off the air…when he was being serious and talking football it was fine, but the stuff behind the scenes, he just has this knack for being incredibly funny.”
“And he’s been that way since his playing career and he has parlayed that into an entertainment career now where he is absolutely killing it,” said Giannotti. “And he is one of the best to ever play at his position.”
Esiason added, “It’s his delivery, it’s his speech patterns, it’s the way he goes about things when he can really be himself, which is what he is, that’s what’s making him uber successful and a lot of money.”
