Watching this for the first time in a while and it gets me every time. Mike literally gives the entire backstory of why he was tired and fell asleep.. and then just says he closed his eyes for his minute BUT WAS NOT ASLEEP ughkay

Does he know he wouldn't be charged with a crime for falling asleep for a minute? He explains why he would've fell asleep but then maintains he wasn't asleep

He is the most arrogant man alive, hands down. He fell asleep. Admit it, embrace it, and move on. He was out cold.

“When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.”

I've never seen anyone else so aggressively unwilling to EVER admit to making the slightest error. The time he realized he was on camera eating ice cream you could see him yelling at someone as if it were their fault he was eating. It's an infuriating quality to have and he'd be so much more well liked if once and awhile he just said "oh looks like I fucked up for a second" and made light of it like every other human being that lives and breathes on this planet

I wasn't asleep, I've been doing this for 25 years, uhkay

He and Maddog put *ME* to sleep talking about horse racing and tennis...

Falls asleep at work Uses wife and kids ailment as a crutch Closes with personal accolades

The guys that work with him must be cringing so hard at this

Excuses, excuses, excuses. "My wife this..., my son that..., my eyes were shut but I wasn't asleep..." Just fess up and admit you were caught sleeping.

“I was so tired I was up watching football for my job”

Who is he trying to convince?

He fell asleep, hit his face on the microphone and was promptly woken, and then he looked around to see if he was caught. Even after everyone saw that, he’s gonna say it didn’t happen. Lol. What a troll

How to admit you feel asleep while saying you didn’t fall asleep 💤

dont ever take these francesa off. He s retirng soon. and this will be all ill have of him.

Only Mike would turn this into him dreaming about winning a Marconi award rather than just admitting he fell asleep for a minute. So arrogant. God forbid he ever admits to a mistake.

The Fatman’s reasoning is not cutting it. The most laughable version is when he says “if that’s what you take away from 30 years...”. He would have been better off saying that yes indeed he fell asleep-that way we would know that he’s human like the rest of us.

He was dreaming of that big bowl of 🍝 pasta. 💤

This guys sleeps more than me....

The age old I wasn't asleep just closed my eyes for a second. Yea ok. Lol

"Exercise induced asthma".... Mike, why are you letting your kid run around in the middle of the night so the point that he has an asthma attack?

Later in the show a caller was talking about Cano not hustling. Mike said he has never hustled in his career so how are you going to make him start now? Then the caller said something like "if your employee was asleep at the job, would you say something? and that got big mikey going pretty good haha.

I'm tellin ya I never sleep I don't know why people keep sayin that I sleep, I don't.

There's something seriously wrong with this guy, why can't he just admit he fell asleep? Then he comes up with some lame excuse about his kid's allergies? Then he has this whole rant about his wife putting him up to this.

Why is he making up an excuse for falling asleep but still denying he fell asleep. “Because of blah blah, that justifies me falling asleep, but I didn’t fall asleep.”

He sounds like me grandma,she would be slumped over half off the couch and she would say “oh no ,I wasn’t sleeping,I was just resting my eyes “ lmao miss you luv

I just watched that video. It was that type of sleep like in bed after few seconds you wake up scared. He was on camera and he looked confused and scared

I promised you I knocked my glasses into the mic on purpose

Funny thing is all Mike had to do was fess up, admit he fell asleep and crack a few jokes on himself. If he just did that he could have avoided like 95% of the trolls and prank calls. But no, not Mike. He is utterly incapable of self-deprecation humor.

"As the weather changes, he has some exercise-induced asthma" huh?

Its funny how an explanation of Mike "resting his eyes" somehow transformed into Mike being a finalist for the Marconi award. Wait a second, how do we go from Mike sleeping on the air to him talking about the Marconi being announced in Dallas. Turns out he did win and that is a huge honor but if only Mike could learn that sometimes if you could just laugh at yourself a little and poke fun at yourself, people would like you a heckuva lot better.

I can't believe this was over 3 years ago

Why would his wife say "You can't go in without asleep again!" if he didn't fall asleep? Obviously she upset that he fell asleep! He's lying big time.

He's a terrible liar.

I wasn't asleep I was in deep thought!bahahahahahaha!

Sleepy Mike

I wish I slept as well at night as he does on cam. 😂

If he didn't fall asleep, then why did he need to bring up the fact that he was up all night the night before?

Mike, there is no way you were not asleep. Stay true to your lying about anything that makes you look bad. I turned the dial on you a long time ago and I was a long time every day listener[since day one].

Exercised induced asthma? That means your son is fat and is out of shape...And your son was having an exercised induced asthma attack in the middle of the night?

He’s so embarrassed he has to ask for prayers for some stupid radio award

Pause at 1:42...mike as the joker...let the laughter commence!

“It’s almost like being in San Diego.” No, it isn’t. Not even a little.

Mike and Fonzie I never wrong

he gives loads of excuses for falling asleep, then says he didn't fall asleep! I dont care that he fell asleep, its only funny cuz he denies it and is so curmudgeonly about it.

no comment im sleeping

As pompous as he is, I love this dude

Mike should do a whole show asleep he would still beat Kay and dipietro.

This has happened to me on the air. Totally bobbed for apples. He should have fessed up.

The amount of gerrymandering and excuse making he fit into such a small segment is impressive in itself.

it looked like he was nodding out

Franceasa is bad ass.!! he says Stop The Nonsense.!!

30 years on radio and you have to come up with an entire backround story on why you "dozed off" for a few seconds?..jesus christ

Bet that's not the only time she said he's not 20 anymore. He should've just owned to it instead of bringing his sons health involved. His wife should be pissed about that one

Da owlny reazin I’m doooin dis

so what he's saying is, "yes, i was very tired, and yes, i didn't get any sleep, and yes, it would be logical for me to be asleep because I was awake with my son and didn't get any sleep, BUT, having said all of that, i was not asleep." fool.

Oh Mike. All you had to do was just admit and laugh about it. Instead you used your wife and you do what you always do.... Your never wrong mike. Never. It's always everyone else's fault. Mike you have no idea how to read the audience. All you had to do was totally just come clean that you fell asleep. You could have easily made fun of it. Nope, not the great, the legend Mike Francesa..... Your ego is more important.

Well put.

Macaroni award? lol that was good

Wow...This Tubby can not even just admit that he was Tired and Dozed off for a few seconds...He has to give us a play by play of what he did the entire day and night before in Exhausting detail...He even uses his Wife as an Excuse to why he is telling us this

he didnt fall aslep

How is his wife telling him what to do? Hes a mega success..wtf has she done. "Why dont you exercise your I'm better than you muscles" -Patrice

Mike needs to explain why he spilled his coke after the break

Five minutes of talking about how late he was up........and how he was up all night.......But--he wasn't sleeping. So why preface it?

Mike needs to explain why he still had the label on it

He Fell 😴 !

If Mike says he didn't fall asleep I believe him

He was resting his eyes, not sleeping.

Did he win that award??

Just say you fell asleep lol... you gave the whole story only to deny it at the end... that’s why we can’t stand you

The excuse is 1000% worse than the act!

Just can’t have fun with it. Makes him so unlikable. He’s very good at his job. If he would have just said yeah I dozed and laughed about it that would have been cool to see.

He's gotta bring his family into this?

Pull my other leg and sing jingle bells

Mike Francesa #1

This man has no sense of humor. Wow.

Georgia roddy…Rutgiz

national treasure lmfao

It would’ve all gone away if you just admitted you dozed off for a minute

All he had to do was say it right when it happened made a joke out of it ..but he is unable now its his son and wife's fault lol this guy takes everyone with him lol 🐀🐀🐀🐀

Mike take your medicine like a man!!! You were f*****g sleeping ok. You ride people daily and now it is your turn to get ripped.

GD, I just fell asleep over his lame excuse.

Blame the kid.... ya, ok Mike.

When you take....brown sugar...(got it?), you ll get the same effect, you're dropping the ball....🔥🔥🔥🤬😉

Pause @3:56. Everyone in the control room looks like they're nodding off!! Lmao Then again, this ridiculous speech Mike is giving denying it, is a snoozefest itself!!!!!!! Zzzzzzzzzzz........

A real man never blames his wife...he is very very insecure..but many times successful people are..he is a easy guy to torture lol has 0 sense of humor im shocked Italians have the ability to laugh at and with people he is a mess over this lol

yea ok

A bunch of excuses...., YOU DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN YOURSELF, TAKE A DAY OFF BUT DON'T SAY I PROMISE YOU...., FATIGUE IS HUMAN BUT DON'T GET DEFENSIF,JEE,GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!ORGANIZE BETTER AND NOT LAIM EXCUSES, YOU WERE TIRED,SO WHAT??????IT HAPPENS BUT IT CAN LOOKS DISRESPECTFUL,SO MY ADVICE, YOUR AUDIENCE CAN BE TOLERANT AND UNDERSTAND SOME SITUATIONS BUT GET REAL!!!! AND SINCERELY, THE BEST TO YOUR FAMILY AND YOURSELF 🙏🍻⚾ GREETINGS FROM BELGIUM, THAT'S WHAT I CALL LONG DISTANCE,NEW YORK AND SEATTLE ARE MY KIND OF TOWN, GRANTED, TOTALLY DIFFERENT BUT STILL....., LIVE US SPORTS, THE BEST!!!!!

Bullcrap!!

Bullshit.

Who cares. Mike handled this well

Yoah wife is a whoah!!!

FATCESA

dont ever take these francesa off. He s retirng soon. and this will be all ill have of him.