Mike Francesa was blown away by this lack of information.
The popular former WFAN host went on a mini-rant Monday about how Fox sideline reporter Kristina Pink allegedly did not mention the windy conditions Sunday during her hit from MetLife Stadium.
The wind factored into the Packers’ 27-20 road win over the Giants.
“I wonder what TV does. And I don’t want to pick on television because I don’t care enough to pick on them,” Francesa said on his self-named podcast.
“But can somebody tell the sideline reporter before the game, when they’re gonna do a standup, you’re in Giants Stadium — which is one of the windiest stadiums in all of football — on a day where it is blowing upwards of gusts to 38, blowing in the high-20s all day, the wind is gonna be an enormous factor in the game. Never mentions the wind in the standup. Why bother? Why bother? I just have to see it today and say, ‘Can you mention the wind? You’re in the middle of it, is it blowing out there?’”
Francesa, 71, said he knew early Sunday after going to church that it would be a windy day in the Meadowlands and that would play a role in the NFC encounter.
NFLweather.com projected the wind to be between 26-37 mph during the course of the game.
Packers kicker Lucas Havrisik missed two extra points, while Giants kicker Younghoe Koo missed a longer attempt following a 15-yard penalty.
Neither team attempted a field goal.
“It was a factor,” Giants interim coach Mike Kafka said of the wind. “It’s something we talked about, special teams, defense, offense, just kind of knowing where it was at, where we had field position wise. So, a certain direction might have affected a little bit more. Another direction, not as much. But our game plan was our game plan. I thought our guys went out there, just came up a couple of plays short.”
Packers coach Matt LaFleur said after the game that he did not know which way the wind was blowing.
He commended the Giants for taking the ball first, which allowed them to have the advantageous wind setup for the fourth quarter.
“It was all over the place,” LaFleur said. “I knew when I woke up this morning and I looked outside the flags and they were just straight as an arrow, was like, ‘Oh, OK, it’s going to be a windy day.’
“It was certainly a factor in some of those situations.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
