NJ.com · Mar 4, 2017
Chris Christie to WFAN? Mike Francesa opens up about possible replacement
NEW YORK -- When Mike Francesa steps away from the microphone for good at WFAN on Dec. 15, there's a chance that he could be replaced in the No. 1 chair in New York sports talk radio by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Christie's name has been floated in multiple reports as a successor to Francesa and the venerable sports talk host opened up about his potential successor Saturday at the fourth-annual FrancesaCon at Irving Plaza.
"I can't say what Chris Christie wants to do," Francesa told NJ Advance Media Saturday. "I would think they would team him with somebody else if he was going to be a candidate [to replace me].