As the Philadelphia Eagles secured a Super Bowl championship for the second time in six seasons, the FOX Sports presentation of the game featured a storyline of its own. Tom Brady, the seven-time Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was calling his first Super Bowl in the broadcast booth as Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs attempted to win a third-straight championship. Boomer Esiason, who was in the broadcast booth and studio for CBS Sports, discussed what he viewed on the Monday morning edition of Boomer & Gio on WFAN.
While news surrounding local sports surrounded the New York Jets reportedly opting to move on from quarterback Aaron Rodgers after two seasons, the Super Bowl matchup dominated discussion early in the show. Co-host Gregg Giannotti explained that while it was amazing what the Chiefs had done, the great dynasties in football do not have a game akin to Sunday night happen to them. The Chiefs were down 24-0 at the half and did not get past midfield until the third quarter, but he believes that Brady enjoyed seeing what was occurring on the gridiron.
“Tom is just completely pre-packaged now, and he’s just a guy who is hawking products and smiling and he’s just all cleaned up, but deep down in that robotic body of his was a guy that loved seeing what happened last night,” Giannotti said. “There is no two ways about it. He was down 28-3 at halftime, he came back and won. Everybody’s talking about the Patrick Mahomes-Andy Reid dynasty could be better than the Patriots. They get their ass kicked with him in the building.”
Giannotti depicted Brady smiling from ear to ear telling the Chiefs to try again for the three-peat, something that has never been done in NFL history during the Super Bowl era. Brady had an opportunity to win three consecutive Super Bowl championships with the Patriots, but the effort fell short and the team was eliminated by the Denver Broncos in the divisional round. The pregame show talked about the potential history being made and also featured Brady throwing a pass to his former teammate Rob Gronkowski. Prior to the studio program from Bourbon Street, former Patriots head coach Bill Belichick starred in a special touring the area.
“It was Patriot central,” Esiason said of the pregame show. “It was like Bill Belichick, Gronkowski, Brady. I mean, it’s over and over and over and over – it was nonstop, and rightfully so – I guess rightfully so.”
Giannotti explained that Brady and Gronkowski both work for FOX Sports and that it makes sense that both former Super Bowl champions would be featured on the programming. Esiason later remarked that Belichick, who will commence his first season as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina, was everywhere. Earlier in the week, he attended the NFL Honors award ceremony and also starred in a Super Bowl commercial. In the end though, Esiason contends that the Super Bowl fell flat and had a sense of disappointment in that everyone was looking forward to the Big Game.
“It was a dud – it was a total dud – and this for sure,” Giannotti concurred. “Looking at Travis Kelce’s face, I think, summed it all up. He was stunned, he was sad, he was confused. He didn’t know what the hell was going on.”
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