Please excuse the gaping brow gash.
Fortunately, Mike Francesa’s received it bandaged up.
The legendary former WFAN host addressed the elephant above his eyebrows on an episode of “The Mike Francesa Podcast” Tuesday.
“I took [my son] Harrison back to school today, and it was a very cold and windy day,” Francesa, 70, started, per a clip posted by @BackAftaThis on X. “I used to be reaching into the trunk to take out a few these luggage … and the wind blew the trunk down on my head and reduce my head open.
“Under this bandage I actually need stitches,” he continued, touching on the spot. “But I can’t get stitches because the cut is too wide. It has to heal first. Then they’ll stitch it and re-stitch it when they can re-stitch it … I actually bashed my head open with the trunk of my car today. So, that was my afternoon.”
The polar vortex pummeling the nation this week has despatched bone-chilling temperatures from Salt Lake Metropolis to Kansas Metropolis to Fairfield, Conn., the place Harrison Francesa attends faculty (they develop up so rapidly!).
And within the Land of Regular Habits, identical to within the Empire State, unrelenting winds are solely including to the despair.
It’s an atmospheric onslaught of historic proportions and it spares none — not even the “Sports Pope.”
“A lot of times you can do something really dumb,” he stated Tuesday. “I, uh — I didn’t — it was simply kinda mom nature. It was very windy and I reached with each palms into the trunk and the wind — it actually was a gust, we had been kinda on a hill there — and the gust of wind threw the hood down onto my head.
“You might see that bandage for a couple days,” Francesa concluded. “It’s a pretty ugly cut.”
To date, this damage is just not conserving Francesa off the airwaves.
A Lengthy Seaside native, Francesa rose to acclaim within the Nineties and 2000s as one half of the uber-popular “Mike and the Mad Dog” present, broadcast on WFAN from 1989-2008.
Francesa launched into a solo profession following the end result of the present and has hosted “The Mike Francesa Podcast” since 2022.
Of late, he has been seen advocating for Woody Johnson at hand the Jets over to Rex Ryan, carte blanche, and imploring the Mets to decide on first-pitch-tossers with out lurid nicknames that describe sexual acts, significantly on “Camp Day.”
