🚨 A SPECIAL DAY! 🚨 Mike & The Mad Dog REUNION 🙏

🚨 A SPECIAL DAY! 🚨 Mike & The Mad Dog REUNION 🙏 | First Take

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Enjoy the finest moments of Mike Francesa and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo (formally Mike & The Mad Dog) from First Take.
0:00 Introductions to First Take
0:30 Adam Schefter waxes lyrical about the “founding fathers”
2:00 Tom Brady retiring and immediate reactions
5:00 Francesa’s thoughts on Tom Brady’s legacy
11:00 Reminiscing on Mike & The Mad Dog favorite memories
14:00 LeBron James talk
16:00 Francesa’s hot take on Brady’s analyst career
17:00 Tributes to the squad
19:00 Behind-the-scenes of fallouts and getting back together #ESPN #FirstTake #NFL #StephenA #MadDog #MikeAndTheMadDog
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@MrAitraining Жыл бұрын

These guys got me thru a lot of days in traffic in NY back then.

@TheRomeerome Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, and they did it without the internet.

@rankobarensic Жыл бұрын

New York accent luv it

@22metzfan 6 ай бұрын

Some of my favorite memories.

@agoodpitch9 Ай бұрын

wherever i am in the world and there's traffic i think of them

@MY-rl8hu Жыл бұрын

The two people who started sports talk genre. Legends....

@TOCC50 Жыл бұрын

Obese Francesa

@sweetrobertos Жыл бұрын

On the East Coast maybe. We had sports talk shows before 1989 in SoCal.

@jasonbari5997 Жыл бұрын

@@sweetrobertos yeah but Mike and mad dog where nationally syndicated

@MrBronx61 11 ай бұрын

@@jasonbari5997 💯💯They took it to another level.

@iandhr1 Жыл бұрын

Stephen A is like a little kid in a candy store. You can see how happy he is to have the two of them together.

@johnjackson6904 Жыл бұрын

i would be too.

@jordinho4ever Жыл бұрын

two legendary radio sport talkers, pioneers

@Queue26 Жыл бұрын

Great job by Steven A getting them back together for a show. Would love to see it happen again someday.

@Youve_GotABeard Жыл бұрын

NY/NJ/CT tristate guy, can’t imagine my life since I was kid without Mike and the mad dog: they are part of the soundtrack of my life. Legends 🙏🏼

@dreambrother80 Жыл бұрын

Legendary. I use to listen to Mike & The Mad Dog everyday for years as a youth. Their sports knowledge combined is unreal. So great seeing them back together one more time. 🙏🏽

@david36498 Жыл бұрын

Me too, while making deliveries in Queens, NYC baby

@champpoo97 Жыл бұрын

Did you say that when they got into there beef exactly and there not legendary your opinion is irrelevant

@manofaith75 Жыл бұрын

It's funny; I remember years ago in an episode of Mike and the Mad Dog, Mike said he did not know Stephen A Smith and that the few times he saw him on tv, he thought he was a loudmouth. Now he wants to make it seem like they've been friends for years. Miss me with that.

@david36498 Жыл бұрын

@@manofaith75 he was a loudmouth, WAS, people evolve

@craiggaudreau805 Жыл бұрын

I spent half my life, stuck on the Major Deegan, trying to get back to Jersey. Thank god for Mike and the Mad Dog!

@RuffRyder_43 Жыл бұрын

Mike and the Mad Dog = The greatest sports talk radio duo of all time!!!

@TOCC50 Жыл бұрын

Brady will be back

@toddnelson7711 Жыл бұрын

I listened to those guys for a long time!

@jimwerther Жыл бұрын

They were guys lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Many others could have done the same given the opportunity.

@car34bx Жыл бұрын

Mike seems a lot happier than I remember as a kid. He was surly 😂

@smoothpants Жыл бұрын

Because he doesn't have to take phone calls from dummies. LOL

@beholden2874 Жыл бұрын

This was a treat. Thank you ESPN. Mike and the Mad Dog were exceptional talking about National Sports as well as local NY. I wish they were on every Wednesday.

@andrewbristow2817 Жыл бұрын

I respect SAS a lot for always giving flowers to those who paved the way.

@brandonlewis5135 Жыл бұрын

Chris helped him after sas radio show failed and gave him opportunity on his radio station

@GoldenFava Жыл бұрын

Listened to Mike & the Mad Dog everyday growing up in NY. They are legends. Great to see them together again!

@bornasiroki3976 Жыл бұрын

This guys teeth whiter than Nick Bosa's ideal world

@gregorydunston2952 Жыл бұрын

What a bar lmfao

@vinceedwards3978 Жыл бұрын

Veeners are great!

@markymark512 Жыл бұрын

Now I need that Mike and Mike reunion someday down the line.

@alanfortune3092 Жыл бұрын

Now that's what I'm talking about! I loved Mike and Mike! Good Call!

@sakthithanigai5036 Жыл бұрын

Just add them to first take. Make it Mike, SAS and Mad Dog that would be goated

@Jalen.3 Жыл бұрын

@@sakthithanigai5036no Molly either

@xtrememarioplush793 Жыл бұрын

Next year is their 35th anniversary since their first show on wfan. Maybe they do one to commemorate that, I would love them to do another like they did at Radio City a few years back.

@mikes4991 Жыл бұрын

I doubt they’ll ever do anything permanent again, but they get a lot of attention nowadays when they reunite for a show every now and then. They may just keep doing this

@alinaeem27 Жыл бұрын

This needs to happen again. Mike and that Mad Dog are legends

@TOCC50 Жыл бұрын

Is Elway better than Marino

@jimwerther Жыл бұрын

They were guys lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Many others could have done the same given the opportunity.

@Ray1969. Жыл бұрын

If you aren’t from NY and didn’t get the chance to listen to Mike and The Mad Dog you missed the greatest sports talk radio of all time. Just amazing sports talk radio!!!!

@MADGUNSMONSTER Жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more!!

@josepha3116 Жыл бұрын

Add Joe Benigno and Steve Sommers

@Ray1969. Жыл бұрын

@@josepha3116 I would definitely add Sommers with me here and you there! Benigno was never really my cup of tea

@reefb4364 Жыл бұрын

Joe Beningo’s Jets rants are epic🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️✅✅✅

@MrBronx61 Жыл бұрын

@@reefb4364 Especially the "Doug Brien" playoff game vs Pittsburgh. Joe B at his best.

@Kevon420 Жыл бұрын

All time great episode of First Take! Thank you ladies and gentlemen.

@saldoug7467 Жыл бұрын

Yes. Lets do it again.

@michaelhogg324 Жыл бұрын

I have to say that it was like me being all GIDDY on Christmas day waiting to open presents when Mike and Chris were there last week as it was AWESOME to see them again and I hope that it happens more often!

@GabGotti3 Жыл бұрын

The legends. Without them there wouldn’t be shows like this.

@jimwerther Жыл бұрын

They were guys lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Many others could have done the same given the opportunity.

@oceanview777 Жыл бұрын

I love mad Dog and Mike so much! Stephen A. Is brilliant to bring both of them on his show. Mike is so interesting .with his takes, hope you will have them on again!

@worldwidephax6864 Жыл бұрын

This is really epic , I grew up in Jersey and Mike & The Mad Dog is legendary, I hope they tie a session often I see the joy in Stephen A. Eyes

@danieldiggs9574 Жыл бұрын

This first take was so good I'm rewatching it again today on lunch break over the actual Thursday first take. Please get these 3 together every week.

@Pnanasnoic Жыл бұрын

Mike is the king. So good to hear him. If he came back I would listen.

@bella100107 Жыл бұрын

Mike is the king!

@jonm7888 Жыл бұрын

I thought he was the Pope.

@jimwerther Жыл бұрын

He's on YT on BRN twice a week

@danielwest9955 Жыл бұрын

Stephen A, Mike, and the Mad Dog discussing Brady's retirement. An A.I. algorithm couldn't have compiled a more absurd gathering of all-time talent to discuss a huge sports topic.

@matthewjosephthecommonsens2940 Жыл бұрын

can this be the new first take everyday? So happy to see Mike and Dog

@anthonys.8569 Жыл бұрын

This was awesome to see them back together! Would listen to these two on YES back in my childhood

@BroadswordNYC Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget, in 1994, when OJ Simpson failed to turn himself in to the LA police , the words of Chris Russo loudly on my Walkman headset- 'OH MY GOD, THE POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR OJ SIMPSON!!!- It gave me chills!

@mrgray001 Жыл бұрын

Growing up in northern NJ I’ve listened to these guys each day without fail. This was totally epic!

@verified.my2cents Жыл бұрын

Mike speaking with fairness and honesty - nothing but respect for that, Great to see these guys together again, well done.

@TheGIJoe69 Жыл бұрын

Loving these long videos

@xeres14 Жыл бұрын

I think the best compliment you can give something you've been looking forward to is that it lived up to the lofty expectations you had for it. Today's show easily did that. Everyone was spot on: Mike, Mike, Molly and Stephen A. Bravo!

@sesanwatson6301 Жыл бұрын

Mad dog has the greatest rants in sports radio history

@BaahBen Жыл бұрын

I am so happy I grew up listening to these two guys for every single year they were on the radio. I rarely missed a broadcast.

@jusstnc1759 Жыл бұрын

Mike is a legend. He is absolutely missed on WFAN

@cevinfelix3026 Жыл бұрын

You have Mike and the Mad Dog on 1st take. Wow!!!. Thanks for bringing them on.

@MajinMarcus_ Жыл бұрын

Mike’s veneers are sending me 😭😭😭

@devinand1fosho Жыл бұрын

Yea they hard to ignore😂😂

@skhetan1 Жыл бұрын

Exactly I was like mike looks squirrels wassup hah

@tony84. Жыл бұрын

0:32, This is gold! and true💯Mike and the Mad Dog started it all with sports talk. And Stephen A. is the greatest TV sports debate show host of all time.💯Shout out to Molly too for keeping order on the show as the moderator.💯Great opening by Stephen A. too.

@paulhutchinson100 Жыл бұрын

So cool to see those two back on TV together! I used to watch their show on the YES network and it was the best sport talk show I've ever seen. Would love to see more of them together!

@david.draper Жыл бұрын

An absolute pleasure to watch 🙏🏻

@krlm2280 Жыл бұрын

The founding fathers of sports debate mike and the mad dog great memories as a kid teen and adult listening to these guys

@adamzaki6232 Жыл бұрын

Mike still has the best teeth in all of entertainment

@BestofWhatsAround83 Жыл бұрын

Could see teeth from the space station.

@blkmind4u Жыл бұрын

Bright light

@Carlos-Lopez84 Жыл бұрын

One of the real reasons why I listen to sports talk radio. Mike and Chris are legends.

@jimwerther Жыл бұрын

They were guys lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Many others could have done the same given the opportunity.

@christiansoldier77 Жыл бұрын

Mike and the Mad Dog !!!! You cant get better than this

@bgmck349 Жыл бұрын

Legendy ....ive been listing the Mike and mad in the 6th grade....im almost 40 now....but another thing to realize, is Stephen A is in their class....he himself has become a legend.

@manofaith75 Жыл бұрын

@MortonT1958 Жыл бұрын

That was a long, long time ago when Stephen A. was a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

@SuperMutant2099 Жыл бұрын

Grew up listening to these two every day coming home from school

@willd4731 Жыл бұрын

My three favorite people in the sports broadcasting world. Someone, please get these three guys together for a daily roundtable show!!! Mike is like Brady, he just can't retire. He's done it twice but keeps coming back. A show between these three would be epic.

@easeow Жыл бұрын

That was truly something special !!!

@feddi7693 Жыл бұрын

Mike and the mad dog!! Legends💯

@rogue7894 Жыл бұрын

Fondest memories as a young man in the early 90s listening in between tours working security in Fort Lee on the weekends in a virtually empty office complex. Cant forget Steve Somers during graveyard shift

@rubinbarber6781 Жыл бұрын

two icons from the worldwide leader .tremendous

@MrCury65 Жыл бұрын

This is great

@oceanview777 Жыл бұрын

Please have hem on again! Smart SA and Molly for bringing them together again. Love seeing SA with them.

@Jonwood74 Жыл бұрын

Everyone in sports media need to bow down to these two legends. Their careers defined sports radio. Mike's podcast represents the best that sports analysis has to offer today, regardless of medium.

@willh69 Жыл бұрын

This was such a great segment - I didn't know Mad Dog was such a central figure in sports and now I know why he's across the table from Stephen A

@feedthefatrabbit1073 Жыл бұрын

Mike and the Mad Dog. Absolutely legendary 🙌 NY Sports Talk Royalty

@TheBoyyWonder100 Жыл бұрын

That dude spoke nothing but facts!

@tonys1025 Жыл бұрын

The best!!

@josephdougherty3653 Жыл бұрын

This is jerome from manhattan and next up is doris from rego park

@Ozmodiar6 Жыл бұрын

Mike, Dog, and Stephen A. talking Brady and LeBron… greatness on greatness.

@robertstv8045 Жыл бұрын

Amazing that the day the Dog and Mike show up a ESPN its the day of Brady's retirement. Amazing timing. Lotta fun.

@TV-xd1ze Жыл бұрын

Iconic and the day Brady Retired no less😂😂😂

@brandongwin5895 Жыл бұрын

This is great!! The Godfathers of sports talk

@scotmoser8716 Жыл бұрын

It was an excellent First Take. Very intelligent Sports Talk!

@100spurs Жыл бұрын

New York in the house!!

@robertgraziano7898 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding!

@mikejejenich7116 Жыл бұрын

I used to call out sick to work. Just to listen to these guys. 🎤. True story 🤣

@HarrisonHollers Жыл бұрын

Daredevil!

@PGO_Gaming Жыл бұрын

Me too. My brother and I used to miss school a day or two just to listen to the WFAN all day. Imus in the Morning, Jody Mac and Sid in the midday, Mike and the Mad Dog in the afternoon and Steve Somers at night.

@truuee9016 Жыл бұрын

Great show all around. Congrats First take. Good luck G.O.A.T Brady, time to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

@roderickwilson2819 Жыл бұрын

Them two are great

@benjaminsmith2287 6 ай бұрын

Loved these two guys. And yeah, they went at it a lot. But they also joked around with each other a lot.

@ianberry4679 Жыл бұрын

Stephen A, Mad Dog and Mike is a goat lineup could watch this everyday

@michaelcedeno391 Жыл бұрын

Much respect.

@go2damoon555 Жыл бұрын

Hey it’s the guy from uncut gems

@currywurstislife4916 Жыл бұрын

The absolute GOATs.

@roeebostic8828 Жыл бұрын

....after work ...they had me laughing...

@darrensmith1370 Жыл бұрын

Mike speaks Facts!

@johnvissichelli9786 Жыл бұрын

That was great, do it again

@bogoy210 Жыл бұрын

In my life time I was lucky enough to watch this Royalty together,!!!..

@ShokusApolloTV Жыл бұрын

great moment

@eddiepearson3600 Жыл бұрын

Legendary!

@Tyweezy84 Жыл бұрын

This was dope to do

@Lovlee33161 Жыл бұрын

If you aren’t a NYC native :YOU SIMPLY DONT GET IT!!!!

@TravieeGrant Жыл бұрын

BRING MIKE BACK HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT

@isaacsantana6560 Жыл бұрын

That dope

@dannygithinji7370 Жыл бұрын

This is legendary thanks Stephen A and Espn

@philthompson7318 Жыл бұрын

Thank God for Mike Francesa my opinion exactly Peyton was the best regular season quarterback and Joe Montana was the best Super Bowl quarterback

@benedettomansueto4016 Жыл бұрын

Love Mike Francesa and Chris Russo always listened to them on WFAN 660 AM Radio New York

@blkmind4u Жыл бұрын

Mike with the bright white teeth tho. ..😁🤣😂

@xacex6944 Жыл бұрын

I could be really wrong but I agree with Francesa on Brady being an analyst. I’ve always pictured him having an executive role on a team rather than being on television

@lucmcdowell1167 Жыл бұрын

Skip Bayless could never get these guys on his show, shows how much people respect Stephen A

@NotNotKenny Жыл бұрын

I grew up in Philly and all my teams are Philly,but Mike and the Mad Dog was my favorite show to listen to.May be the reason i don't completely hate ny teams like i should.Ok maybe the Yankees because they have a lot of fans who have no connection to the ny tri-state area.

@sublime90 Жыл бұрын

this was an epic reunion

@GenF91 Жыл бұрын

How cool!

@brianconnelly1238 Жыл бұрын

This was actually pretty cool, a lot of us grew up on Mike and the Mad Dog... "Good afternoon everybody... HOW ARE YOU TODAYYY?"

@nikiedmonds6236 Жыл бұрын

Mike, Mad Dog and Stephan A together....my LAWD this is special! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@josepha3116 Жыл бұрын

SAS speaks to the low IQ crowd

@nikiedmonds6236 Жыл бұрын

@@josepha3116 then he must speak your language...bye ✌🏾

@solidasarock9337 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Stephen A. That was very good

@Vonhoganschmidt-13 Жыл бұрын

Tremendous Stuff.

@thelawofdivineoneness458 Жыл бұрын

One thing you can always say about SAS is that he knows how to get the ratings. Having Mad Dog on with him once a week is must see TV but to have Mike on as well is a stroke of genius. Whether you love them or hate them...most of us listened to Mike and the Mad Dog. As Greeny said Mike and Chris are the Godfathers of Sports Talk along with the other pioneer of the format....the late great Art Rust Jr.

@yardbird545 Жыл бұрын

Your mention of Art Rust is spot on, he was the first I remember doing it. If I remember correctly, some sort of scandal took Art down. That being said, Mike and Doggie were the best. Used to listen to Dog weekends on WMCA, prior to his teaming up w/ Mike.

@thelawofdivineoneness458 Жыл бұрын

@@yardbird545 There was no scandal with Art Rust Jr. that I knew of. The only thing that eventually took down Mr. Rust Jr. was Father Time.

@strkeout Жыл бұрын

Good to see Mike stay awake for the entire show. What in the world did he do to his teeth? You could show a movie on those things. Still full of hot air.

@jayclarke5466 Жыл бұрын

Lol…as someone who lost all his top teeth, that was first thing I noticed,,,that and although Mike s mind is still very sharp, health wise something doesn’t look right w hIm. Great segment…it’s true what Dog said, the 2 of them are so good @ doin Mike n the Mad Dog, that they seamlessly pick up right where they left off as if they never stop doing the show. As far as your insipid statement of Mike being full of hot air, of course …every good talk show host on the radio has to be full of hot air… Knucklehead!