{"id":99776,"date":"2020-10-28T22:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-benignos-fitting-wfan-retirement-25-years-no-championships\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T22:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:23:46","slug":"joe-benignos-fitting-wfan-retirement-25-years-no-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-benignos-fitting-wfan-retirement-25-years-no-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Benigno’s fitting WFAN retirement: ’25 years, no championships’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joe Benigno’s fitting WFAN retirement: ’25 years, no championships’<\/strong>”
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\n As Joe Benigno rose to stardom, his beloved New York sports teams fell in the toilet.<\/p>\n

Benigno made official at 2 p.m. Wednesday what already had been reported by The Post: He is retiring after a 25-year career as a full-time sports talk voice on WFAN. The final \u201cJoe & Evan\u201d afternoon-drive show co-hosted with Evan Roberts will be Friday, Nov. 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to go for me,\u201d Benigno told listeners. \u201cI don\u2019t think there is any question about it. What else can you say? It\u2019s been a great run. It\u2019s been a stellar 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benigno, 67, has teased retirement for months and his plans are no surprise: Playing golf, moving to Florida and agonizing over losses by the Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwenty-five years on the air, bro, and not one of my teams won a championship,\u201d Benigno said. \u201cSaw everybody but the Jets in the final \u2026 but 25 years, no title. It\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benigno really became the voice of frustrated Jets fans everywhere. Want some symmetry?<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first year on the air, 1995, the Jets go 3-13. They are as bad as can be. It\u2019s the [Rich] Kotite era,\u201d Benigno said. \u201cNow in my final year I\u2019ll have gone out with the Jets being 0-8 because we all know they have no shot to beat the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. Absolutely none. So, my team will be 0-8 as I exit stage left and, who knows, they will probably end with a winless season.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not going to be a Mike Francesa-like goodbye tour for Benigno during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just tons of usage of his calling card, \u201cBro!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe from Saddle River\u201d was a caller to the station and the \u201cMike and the Mad Dog\u201d program for years before he got his shot on the air. After carving out a niche and building a loyal fan base working the overnights, he stabilized WFAN\u2019s midday show from 2004-19, first with Sid Rosenberg and then with Roberts beginning in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we took the midday to places nobody else had done it,\u201d Benigno said. \u201cThat was always the place where places would come and go like the wind. It\u2019s almost like Jets coaches. Every time you turned around there was a new midday show. Nobody did 15 years of the midday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benigno teased Roberts\u2019 future with \u201cbigger and better things,\u201d which The Post has reported includes co-hosting the new afternoon drive show with the return of Craig Carton to WFAN after his stint in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the heavy-duty Jets fans that are out there,\u201d Benigno said, \u201call I want to see is, for me, another Super Bowl and, for all you guys that have not seen one, a championship. I can\u2019t imagine what that would be like.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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