Gregg Giannotti of WFAN New York’s ‘Boomer and Gio’ show does not look back fondly on their interview with Aaron Rodgers they hosted last year.
Giannotti, who has been on the morning show with Boomer Esiason for seven years, called the interview ‘the most awkward, horrible 18 minutes’ in the show’s history.
Speaking to fill-in host Jon ‘Stugotz’ Weiner, who stepped in for Esiason for the week, Giannotti said, ‘I’d rather you interview Aaron Rodgers than us after what happened last year.
‘And I’m dead serious about that. I don’t need another crack at that. I’m fine. Honestly, you can have that, I don’t need to interview him again.’
Rodgers made an appearance on the show last August and didn’t seem all that pleased to be there – even showing up late due to traffic.
Aaron Rodgers’ appearance on the Boomer and Gio show last year didn’t sit right with a host
Co-host Gregg Giannotti (center) called the interview ‘the most awkward, horrible 18 minutes’
‘I don’t think he ever looked at us. Not one time … It was a combination of everything. It was him being upset, us freaking out when he wasn’t playing along,’ Giannotti said. ‘The whole thing was just turds in a blender.’
In the interview, Rodgers was asked about doing the dishes at his eight-bedroom, $9.5m house in New Jersey.
But as the conversation continued, Rodgers said he ‘didn’t want to talk about where he lived’ – leading to some awkward music playing over the voices of the show’s hosts.
‘I led with, ‘Does he buy his own furniture?’ And he was not happy. Boomer went to a dishwashing story, he was even angrier,’ Giannotti told Stugotz, who works on the ‘Dan Le Batard Show.’
That interview with Rodgers came in the midst of his first training camp with the Jets. His season with them was short-lived as he tore his Achilles in just four snaps against the Buffalo Bills.
This year’s training camp began on Tuesday with the start of football season just a few weeks away.
