Mike Francesa Advises Listeners to Visit the Local Barbershop for Information on the Penn State Scandal
According to radio host Mike Francesa, in the latest issue of a very Penn State-themed Sports Illustrated, the owner of a local barbershop in State College is quoted as saying the rumors regarding Jerry Sandusky and his “habits” have been afloat for quite some time. This led the polarizing WFAN personality and underrated sleuth to pontificate on the value of small town barbershops and all the information the barbers and their chatty clients apparently house. Why? Because Floyd, the barber on the Andy Griffith Show, always knew everything, that’s why.
Bonus points to the cantankerous Long Islander for referring to a haircut at an old school barbershop as getting “one of those $1.95 haircuts and put a bowl on your head.”
Also worth noting? Francesa said the word “barbershop” 15 times in the span of the two minute clip, which is well off the pace of his innate ability to repeat himself for the better part of his five-and-a-half hour marathon of a radio show.
[Via @JimmyTraina; H/T @SouvenirCity]
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November 16th, 2011 at 2:32 PM
Why doesn’t Jimmy Traina have a better TV?
November 16th, 2011 at 2:33 PM
Nirvana also has a song called Floyd the Barber in which Floyd is a rapist.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:34 PM
Floyd the Barber in which Floyd is a rapist.
A veritable Sandusky, in fact, if memory serves.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:36 PM
nice reporting by SI. looking forward to reading it
November 16th, 2011 at 2:39 PM
This led the polarizing WFAN personality and underrated sleuth to pontificate on the value of small town barbershops and all the information the barbers and their chatty clients apparently house.
“Johnny, what do you know about open heart surgery?”
“I don’t know nothing.”
November 16th, 2011 at 2:40 PM
In small towns, the best news is always obtained at the barber shop, post office or cafe. May not at all be accurate, but it is the best news.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:40 PM
Is that better or worse than Czaban’s use of gimmicky bits and shtick and other recorded nonsense to carry him to the next commercial without actually having any content?
There is less content on that dude’s show than any other on earth. Unless of course you like the unfunny asides to his flunkies in the studio. Say what you will about Mike and Mike, but at least there is a significant amount of content and discussions there, unlike Czabe squeezing in 30 seconds of nonsense between commercials. He is nowhere near as funny and snarky as he thinks he is. I actually like him much better on the Sports Reporters in the afternoons than on his own show.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:41 PM
Just another example why, even though I live in the NY market, I refuse to listen to WFAN. I never understood the love that that station gets. Just because you’re knowledgeable about a wide variety of topics, does not mean it’s good radio.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:42 PM
Lots of unintentional humor involved with listening to Big Mikey’s show.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:42 PM
I bet he and TBL would get along.
/McNair’d
November 16th, 2011 at 2:42 PM
Francesa is GREAT radio.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:43 PM
When a caller first brought up Sandusky, Francesca hung up thinking it was a crank call.
/Al Albuquerque’d
November 16th, 2011 at 2:44 PM
I personally believe that anybody with an IQ above 80 should not listen to sports radio.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Yeah, I can see this from the occasional mention on this site. When I’m in that kind of a mood, I turn on Finebaum.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:45 PM
finebaum > capn jowels up there
November 16th, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Rrrrhhhoolllaaaa dayum Taaaaaahhhhhddddd
November 16th, 2011 at 2:50 PM
Finebaum is terrible. Dude is nothing more than a carnival barker.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:51 PM
You know it’s just a front. They sell drugs out of barbershops.
/Paul Mooney’d
November 16th, 2011 at 2:52 PM
that’s why he’s funny…and what do you think this fat fuck is? the voice of his generation? WE GET IT…YOU KNEW PARCELLS. shut up already.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:52 PM
Coming to America also proved this.
“He beat Joe Louis’ ass.”
November 16th, 2011 at 2:52 PM
I have never heard the NY dude talk before. I’m just saying Finebaum sucks my ass.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:53 PM
no wonder his breath smells.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:54 PM
Love when he says “You never met no Martin Luther the King”
November 16th, 2011 at 2:58 PM
“Anytime we talk boxing, the white guy’s got to bring up Rocky Marciano!”
/slays me everytime
November 16th, 2011 at 2:58 PM
This movie Chronicle looks like it could be interesting.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:00 PM
“There’s women up inside here! Calm down!” before flashing that shit-eating grin gets me every time
November 16th, 2011 at 3:03 PM
Obviously you’ve never heard of The Schmooze
November 16th, 2011 at 3:04 PM
Where’s the spoon?
November 16th, 2011 at 3:05 PM
That movie is so timeless, even watching it today it’s hilarious. Why did Eddie go off the rails so hard?
November 16th, 2011 at 3:06 PM
“He beat Joe Lewis’ ass.”
“Joe Lewis was 75 years old!”
November 16th, 2011 at 3:07 PM
When adding “favorite quotations” to my profile I made sure the first one was the Joe Louis/Rocky Marciano rant.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:09 PM
Blues Brothers quotable moments >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
November 16th, 2011 at 3:10 PM
If you’re talking about Coming to America, this has to be linked.
SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!!
November 16th, 2011 at 3:10 PM
the town drunk is always right, too.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:11 PM
OT:
Watching the Download Festival on VH-1 Classic, Def Leppard doing “Hysteria”. The days of those high harmonies are long gone. Joe Elliott looks like stir-fried crap.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:13 PM
Just saw that Forrest Gregg announced he has Parkinson’s. That fucking sucks.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:16 PM
Hey Husker – The Carnival Barkers of America would like a “word” with you.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:16 PM
i can’t talk, i really liked farrell;s shtick
shot and a beer shot and a beer shot a beer
November 16th, 2011 at 3:16 PM
Agreed, one of the best to ever play but don’t take my word for it
“Forrest Gregg is the finest player I ever coached”
-Vince Lombardi
November 16th, 2011 at 3:17 PM
Greatest mic drop of all time.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:24 PM
Floyd, the barber on the Andy Griffith Show, always knew everything, that’s why.
Floyd was one freaky dude.
the town drunk is always right, too.
Mayberry’s Otis wasn’t too bright. He ended up moving to a farm outside Atlanta and got et by a pack of zombies.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:24 PM
Forrest Gregg huh? My trust in guys with two first names is a little shaky.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:27 PM
agreed…can’t trust them sum’bitches.
/keeps an eye on Tim Ryan and Stephen Douglas
November 16th, 2011 at 3:27 PM
It’s going to cue another rash of concussions columns. I was all about the concussion awareness, and even stopped commenting on a Pittsburgh blog a couple years ago because I was basically mocked for suggesting that the league would put in new rules to avoid concussions (yeah what are you yinzer assholes saying now, huh?)… that said, he is 78, and the inevitable overreaction/attribution doesn’t really help anyone…
/global warming’d
November 16th, 2011 at 3:27 PM
Floyd, the barber on the Andy Griffith Show, always knew everything, that’s why.
Floyd was one freaky dude.
True story, the actor who played Floyd had a major stroke during the series. In later episodes he is always sitting in chair or on bench because he was stroked out.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:33 PM
Tommy John looks up from cutting your brake lines. “Whazzat?”
November 16th, 2011 at 3:34 PM
/Joe Paterno, 2002
November 16th, 2011 at 3:34 PM
I’m sorry but color episodes of Andy Griffith are not allowed for submission here.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:35 PM
Neither of y’all caught the Parkinson’s joke? I’m slipping.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:36 PM
“Forrest” is a bit shaky as a first name. If he was called “Gregg Forrest” you wouldn’t say that, would you? So he’s more reversed, than first/first.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:37 PM
I caught it. I just chose to cast a suspicious eye on those two-first-namers Tim Ryan and Stephen Douglas.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:41 PM
…..
d’oh
November 16th, 2011 at 3:42 PM
Still though, Tommy John is likely involved in some sort of plot on your life.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:42 PM
Hey, shuttup.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:50 PM
global warming’d
the cause of, and solution to, all of our problems.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:53 PM
where did everybody go? I’m so bored.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:54 PM
still rubbin one out to the frenchy.
/sfw
//actually, meeting w boss…ugh
November 16th, 2011 at 3:55 PM
+980
November 16th, 2011 at 3:56 PM
czaban is awesome…yall suck.