This former Boston radio host didn’t make too many pals at Tremendous Bowl 2025 media day.
Wealthy Shertenlieb, who beforehand had radio reveals on 98.5 The Sports activities Hub and 100.7 WXLZ, confirmed up at Tremendous Bowl media day in New Orleans to troll Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce over alleged pro-Chiefs bias from the referees.
“Patrick, to your entire profession you’ve gotten had so many nice folks make it easier to win. So, who’s your favourite ref?” Shertenlieb requested Mahomes.
Mahomes tried to reply the trolling query genuinely.
“That’s hilarious,” Mahomes replied. “All of the refs are nice, man. All of the refs are nice. They do the perfect they’ll. We go on the market and play the sport the correct approach.”
The query was adopted up by one other jock from Shertenlieb.
“Is there one you give a Christmas card to presumably?” he requested.
“Not that I can bear in mind,” Mahomes stated. “I’ll must ask my teammates to try to determine it out.”
Shertenlieb then focused Kelce for his subsequent spherical of questioning.
“Travis, what do you’re keen on extra? Taylor Swift or phantom 15-yard roughing the passer penalties within the playoffs?” requested Shertenlieb.
“That’s a great query. Anyone else?” Kelce replied denying the questions.
The Chiefs’ favorable whistle within the playoffs has resulted in tons of questions to start out Tremendous Bowl week, with even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell being responding to allegations of a conspiracy concept that the NFL is directing officers to maintain Kansas Metropolis’s dynasty going.
“Ha! Think about asking a soccer query to a soccer participant about essentially the most talked about soccer name of the postseason,” Shertenlieb wrote on X in response to criticism.
Shertenlieb is clearly attempting to maintain the jokes going, though his departure from the Toucher & Wealthy Present after almost 20 years in Boston continues to be recent.
He didn’t return after a profitable run with co-host Fred Toucher, and moved to 100.7, the place he had a short-lived run with the iHeart Radio station that underwent mass layoffs not lengthy after choosing up his present.
“Earlier this yr, Wealthy stated some stuff on and off the air I didn’t like, so I texted him some issues that I had been holding onto from the course of our relationship that he didn’t like,” Toucher stated in November. “His agent informed my agent, possibly it’s higher if the blokes negotiated individually.”