WFAN morning show host Boomer Esiason isn’t getting any younger. That fact was noted by afternoon host Craig Carton, who said he could see the former NFL quarterback hanging up the headphones in the next year.
“I’ll give him another decade,” Evan Roberts said.
“Not a shot. I promise you that’s not in the cards,” Carton replied.
“He loves it way too much,” replied Roberts.
“The longest he would ever do it is 65. And he’s 61 now. I don’t think he’ll do four more years, but that’s the longest he would do it. I can see Boomer a year from now saying ‘I’ve done everything I possibly could do, professionally, I’m good. I wanna relax and enjoy my grandkids’ — that he’s blessed to have — go play a lot of golf, fish, travel, do whatever, and then he’s done.”
Roberts then asked if Esiason would be interested in a “retirement tour”, which Carton immediately shot down.
“No. I think he announces it, there will be a special show at the end — probably at an auditorium or theatre or arena — and it’s a wrap. The only real question is does he call me and ask me to come back and do it with him.”
Roberts argued Carton must be a part of a farewell show, going as far to say Carton “created” Esiason as a radio host. He then asked what WFAN would do without Boomer in the morning drive position, wondering if the station would pair Jerry Recco and Gregg Giannotti for the timeslot.
“I don’t know what they will do, but I know there are some people who are starting to panic about it,” Carton concluded.
