By Alex Cohen-Smith
After the New York Jets blew their hot start and allowed Jacksonville to squeak by them in Week 10 to leave their record at 4-5, not many people thought they still had a shot of making the postseason. So after that game when WFAN New York radio personality Craig Carton promised he’d walk across the Brooklyn Bridge in a speedo if the Jets made the playoffs, no one thought much of it. How could a rookie coach and a rookie QB come back from that? Then the Jets started winning again. And while everyone else in the league began to crumble, the Jets played hard nosed, downhill football.
So this morning, in front of a raucous crowd of thousands of fans that included everyone from the College Mansion cheerleaders to Jets superfan Fireman Ed, Carton walked the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan in a speedo. No one enjoyed it more than Carton’s on air partner Boomer Esiason who wore a smile from ear to ear during the whole walk.
When Carton finished his walk in Manhattan (still in a speedo), he auctioned off numerous prizes including two photos from Steiner Sports, a Darrelle Revis photo and a Jerricho Cotchery photo. Carton has also signed a few of our Yankee stadium seats. A seat pair signed by Carton and Alex Rodriguez sold online for over $2,000 that went straight to The Boomer Esiason Foundation, which fights cystic fibrosis.
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the College Mansion girls were a hit!! Thanks WFAN!
mike and the mad dog should have made the same bet about the giants not making the playoffs when they were 5-0. how’d that happen again?