FRANCESA’S FAVORITES
SPORTS TEAM: New York Yankees ("The only team I’ve ever been a fan of is the Yankees and the only idol I ever had was
Mickey Mantle.")
SPORTS MOMENT WITNESSED IN-PERSON: Game six of the 1996 World Series (when the Yankees clinched a World Series for the first time since 1978), 1991 Super Bowl (when the Giants won because Bills’ kicker
Scott Norwood missed a field goal attempt “wide right”) and game seven of the 1994 Stanley Cup (when the Rangers won for the first time in 54 years)
BOOK: “The best biography of all-time and the greatest book I’ve ever read is
David McCullough’s
Truman, which won the Pulitzer Prize. I’ve read it three times and would recommend it to anybody. The best sports biography?
When Pride Still Mattered,
David Maraniss on
Vince Lombardi.” (He also pays a guy to find and buy for him every book ever written about
John F. Kennedy.)
MOVIE: 1972's
The Godfather, 1953's
Shane, 1938's
The Adventures of Robin Hoodand 1947's
Body and Soul. (He’s a SAG-AFTRA member — “and I do like to vote [for the SAG Awards],” he says. The 2015 movie that he backed?
Room — “The kid [
Jacob Tremblay] should have been nominated. His performance was the best performance I’ve seen on film in five years. I thought it was brilliant and he should’ve gotten the Academy Award.”)
TV SHOW: FX’s
The Affair. “I can’t wait for that to come back, I love that show,” he says, adding, "The
Housewives stuff is stupid — I mean, I wouldn’t let any of them in my house. That show is deplorable."
SONG: Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69"
MAGAZINE: GQ. "I actually like to keep up on the styles," he says.
RESTAURANT: Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, located across from Radio City Music Hall at 1221 Ave. of the Americas.
HOTEL: The Four Seasons in midtown Manhattan and the Trump Soho.
RECURRING WFAN GUEST: The late
George Young, former general manager of the New York Giants.
DUMB ON-AIR CALL: "There have been way too many." (He adds, "I don’t want to hear 'How are you,' I don’t want to know what they had for breakfast and I don't want to hear how great I am — because it’s all bullshit. I also could do without 'First time, long time.'")
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