Embattled Toronto mayor Rob Ford Thursday talked to WJFK 106.7 FM The Fan's "Sports Junkies" show about allegations that he tried to buy a video that appeared to show him smoking crack cocaine, childhood memories of the Redskins and the controversy over the team's mascot.
According to The Washington Post, the four Junkies — lifelong friends from the Maryland suburbs, who started with a cable-access show nearly 20 years ago — banter about sports, pop culture and their own lives for four hours weekday mornings. They’ve never been accused of excessive maturity, or of rigorous journalism, but they’ve earned a loyal following among Washington area sports fans for their lively, irreverent chatter.
That the Junkies briefly became international newsmakers Thursday was thanks in large part to two of their producers, Matt Cahill and Matt Myers, who wrote to Ford’s representatives about two weeks ago “as a lark, really,” said John-Paul Flaim, another host. Cahill and Myers regularly aim high with their requests.
They tried to appeal to Ford — a known football fanatic who attended a Redskins youth camp as a teenager and watched last weekend’s Bills game in person — by inviting him to pick NFL games, as former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. used to do. To the surprise of Cahill and Myers, Ford’s chief of staff got in touch Tuesday, saying the mayor was in.
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