While WFAN’s Mike Francesa may be losing in the actual ratings, he seems to be winning in at least one form of hot air. On his on-app Mike’s On show Monday morning, Francesa delivered some criticism of New York Jets’ coach Adam Gase, but what’s more interesting is the noise at 0:18, which sure sounds like a fart:
Mike Francesa says it's time for Adam Gase to be fired. Mike has been around a lot of coaches, so this was not an easy decision for him. pic.twitter.com/hUO5Iqcq3j
— Ƒunhouse (@BackAftaThis) November 4, 2019
That led to a New York Daily News story of “Mike Francesa appears to rip fart while ripping Adam Gase,” by Dennis Young, and that in turn led to Francesa spending a lot of time on his regular WFAN afternoon show (3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Eastern) discussing that story:
He's denying the fart.
— Ƒunhouse (@BackAftaThis) November 4, 2019
???? #FARTGATE ????
We had fireworks today if you missed it. Mike Francesa appeared to have farted during his morning show on the app. I posted the clip at 10am. The Daily News then wrote a story about the fart this afternoon.
Here, Mr. Francesa aggressively denies the allegation. pic.twitter.com/cqM7m4CYqn
— Ƒunhouse (@BackAftaThis) November 5, 2019
Part two of the fart defense. pic.twitter.com/4uuKIfMS06
— Ƒunhouse (@BackAftaThis) November 5, 2019
Part three. Mike breaks out the FAKE NEWS defense. pic.twitter.com/gE0VRLgsRK
— Ƒunhouse (@BackAftaThis) November 5, 2019
Mike francesa spending an awful lot of time on a fart. Sounding kind of guilty. Hahaha. #fartgate
— John Doe (@AtlanticCityKid) November 4, 2019
Mike Francesa just went on a 5 minute segment on how he didn’t fart on the radio @BackAftaThis is Fake news!
— Anthony Marciano (@A_Marciano691) November 4, 2019
Francesa just called everyone “morons” and then reads headline “Mike Francesa rips Fart while ripping Adam Gase.”
— JerseyMike (@jerseymike7) November 4, 2019
He who denied it, supplied it https://t.co/zx1vXXqMhz
— Dennis Young (@dpyoung13) November 4, 2019
Look, at this point, it really doesn’t matter if it was Francesa’s fart or the fart of someone else that was captured on the stream here; it’s just very funny that this happened. And really, a loud fart isn’t the worst possible commentary on Gase’s coaching tenure, especially after the Jets lost to a team that was trying to lose. But it is definitely funny to see The Sports Pope spend a fair bit of his radio show addressing if he did or did not fart on air.
