This former Boston radio host didn’t make too many buddies 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, for your whole career you have had so many great people help you win. So, who is your favorite ref?” Shertenlieb requested Mahomes.
Mahomes tried to reply the trolling query genuinely.
“That’s hilarious,” Mahomes replied. “All the refs are great, man. All the refs are great. They do the best they can. We go out there and play the game the right way.”
The query was adopted up by one other jock from Shertenlieb.
“Is there one you give a Christmas card to possibly?” he requested.
“Not that I can remember,” Mahomes mentioned. “I’ll have to ask my teammates to try and figure it out.”
Shertenlieb then focused Kelce for his subsequent spherical of questioning.
“Travis, what do you love more? Taylor Swift or phantom 15-yard roughing the passer penalties in the playoffs?” requested Shertenlieb.
“That’s a good question. Anybody 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 principle that the NFL is directing officers to maintain Kansas Metropolis’s dynasty going.
“Ha! Imagine asking a football question to a football player about the most talked about football call of the postseason,” Shertenlieb wrote on X in response to criticism.
Shertenlieb is clearly making an attempt to maintain the jokes going, though his departure from the Toucher & Wealthy Present after practically twenty years in Boston continues to be contemporary.
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 selecting up his present.
“Earlier this year, Rich said some stuff on and off the air I didn’t like, so I texted him some things that I had been holding onto from the course of our relationship that he did not like,” Toucher mentioned in November. “His agent told my agent, maybe it’s better if the guys negotiated separately.”
