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Brandon Tierney Escalates Feud With WFAN’s Gregg Giannotti After On‑Air Broadside

The back‑and‑forth spotlights WFAN’s internal rifts over pranks, reputations, and management decisions.

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Overview

  • Giannotti, which ripped Tierney on Monday, called him a bad teammate, said colleagues hated working with him, and knocked program director Ryan Hurley for letting Tierney back on air.
  • Tierney answered hours later on his BT Unleashed YouTube show, saying his “bad teammate” remark was only about last year’s prank and calling Giannotti’s on‑air attack a character hit.
  • Following Tuesday’s follow‑up jab on WFAN, Tierney mocked Giannotti as thin‑skinned and recalled a 2019 Mike Francesa call‑in where he said Giannotti stayed quiet.
  • The dispute traces to March of last year, when Giannotti phoned Tierney’s show as “Frank in Bayside” and played into a false claim that Tierney drank with St. John’s players, which Tierney says risked his job as a longtime team radio analyst.
  • The flare‑up comes after WFAN’s December 2025 reshuffle that left Tierney off the lineup, and coverage from outlets like Awful Announcing, Newsday, and the New York Post casts it as significant station drama with no sign of formal action.