1a. I like Joe Tessitore. For one, he was my local sports guy back in the day. For two, he was a guest on friend of the show Jimmy Traina’s most recent SI Media Podcast, for which he gains some clout.
Last Monday night won’t be a career highlight though. Tessitore’s comment, early fourth-quarter of the Steelers’ win in Tampa: “The guy who just carried the ball who’s filling in for him [Le’Veon Bell], the cancer survivor James Conner, he makes $200,000 less in his entire yearly salary than Bell would be making in a single-game paycheck.