Please excuse the large scratch on my forehead.
Thankfully, Mike Francesa bandaged it.
The legendary former WFAN host addressed the elephant above his eyebrow on Tuesday's episode of “The Mike Francesa Podcast.”
“I took [my son] Harrison went back to school today, but it was a very cold and windy day. ” Francesa, 70 years old, startedAccording to a clip posted by @BackAftaThis on
“You actually need stitches under this bandage,” he continued, touching the area. “But the cut is too wide to suture. It has to heal first. Then they stitch it, and when they can stitch it again, they stitch it again… I actually had my head in the trunk of my car today. So that was my afternoon.”
The polar vortex that is hitting the country this week is bringing bone-chilling temperatures from Salt Lake City to Kansas City to Fairfield, Conn., where Harrison Francesa goes to college (they grow so fast!). ).
And in a land of solid customs, as in the Empire State, the unrelenting winds only increase despair.
It is an atmospheric onslaught of historic proportions, and even the “Sports Pope” will not spare.
“A lot of times you can do really stupid things,” he said Tuesday. “I was like, uh, not really. It was just Mother Nature. It was so windy that I stuck my hands in the trunk and it was blowing. It was really gusty. It was like a hill, and a gust of wind knocked my hood down on my head.
“The bandage may stay in your eye for a few days,” Francesa concluded. “That's a pretty bad cut.”
So far, the injury hasn't kept Francesa off the air.
Francesa, a Long Beach native, achieved critical acclaim in the 1990s and 2000s as one half of the wildly popular show “Mike and Mad Dog,” which aired on WFAN from 1989 to 2008.
Francesa began his solo career after the show concluded, and has been hosting the “Mike Francesa Podcast” since 2022.
Recently, he has urged manager Woody Johnson to hand over the Jets to Rex Ryan with a clean slate, and to choose a pitcher who does not use vulgar nicknames that are sexually suggestive, especially on “Camp Day.” He has been seen pleading with the Mets.
