The New York Giants 2024 season opener was a disaster from the jump and they ended up losing 28-6 to the Minnesota Vikings at home.
Things were so bad that Giants fans started booing two plays into the game. They were also booed off the field at halftime and later when Daniel Jones threw a pair of interceptions, one of which was a disastrous pick-six just outside of the endzone.
After the game, defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence was asked about the booing and he chastised fans for doing so, but not before asking for “another question, please.”
“I don’t respect it, honestly,” said Lawrence . “I get it, they want to see their team win. It’s just a rough patch. It is what it is.”
Tuesday, the interaction was played on The Michael Kay Show and co-host Don La Greca launched into a screed against the unnamed reported who asked the question and the media industry at large.
“I would like to know who asked the question,” said La Greca while Michael Kay and Peter Rosenberg looked on. “I mean, come on, really? It’s a football game. A lot of bad things happened. A lot of things that you can ask Xs and Os-wise. If you got nothing, don’t ask a question.
“There’s been plenty of times I’ve been in a locker room in the scrum, Michael. And you got nothing. I didn’t ask a question because I didn’t have one. That to me felt like, ‘Well, I got to ask a question. I’m here. I have to ask I can tell everybody that I got a chance to talk to Dexter Lawrence after the game. I can tell my grandchildren, I talk to Dexter Lawrence after the game. But unfortunately, I’m not good at what I do. So I had to ask a question. So what I did is I thought back in my mind and I said, I’ll ask about the fans booing. That’s a good question, isn’t it?’
“NO! It’s a stupid question! Alright? What do you expect the guy to say? ‘I loved it. I rubbed it on myself.’
I swear to God, I’m not going to say it because there’s a lot of guys that I respect. But I gotta tell you, I’ve been covering football for over 20 years. I covered the Jets for 16. I covered the Giants before it. There’s a lot of people that are good at what they do, and there’s a lot of guys that are bad. There’s a lot of people that cover football that have no idea what they’re doing. None.
“What is TMZ showing up to games now? You can’t ask a question about football? I’ll defend the media to the hilt, but come on. It’s a tired question, Michael, and it’s a gotcha question because you know it’s probably going to be an uncomfortable answer that’ll go viral and you get the flex your muscles that I asked the question.”
So then he did his job,” responded Kay.
“Well, if that’s the job, you know what? Everybody’s right about the media,” added La Greca. “We’re a bunch of pigs.”
Kay continued to push back on La Greca, saying that the reporter had a reasonable responsibility to ask about fans booing since it happened so often during the game.
“You think it’s unfair? That crowd was booing three plays into the game, Don,” said Kay, who also said that La Greca was “wrong.”
That kicked off an entirely new angle to the drama, with La Greca defending himself from the accusation that he was incorrect.
“Don’t talk to me like that, Michael, okay?” said La Greca. “I’m a little tired of being told I’m wrong. You can disagree with my opinion, but don’t say I’m wrong.
“I’m entitled to my opinion, okay? A little tired of being told you’re wrong.”
“Alright, your opinion is wrong,” said Kay in a button on the segment.
As Rosenberg started his outro on the segment, a visibly angry La Greca took off his headset, slammed it on the table, and walked away as the show went to commercial.
It appears Michael Kay is gonna have to hug it out with yet another broadcasting partner very soon.
[ The Michael Kay Show ]
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