The day after the September 11 attacks , sportswriter Phil Mushnick claimed that the duo had stated , on-air , that all Jewish Americans should take a loyalty oath to the United States . Francesa denied ever making such comments , prompting further criticism from Mushnick . In April 2017 , Deadspin reported that a recording of the show from September 12 , 2001 , had been located in the 9/11 archives of the Paley Center for Media . Deadspin writers listened to the episode , and noted that while Francesa and Russo had argued with an American citizen caller about his loyalty to Israel taking precedence over his loyalty to the United States , the broadcast was not " the Jew-bashing trainwreck that New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick described . " On the flip side , the duo have always defended each other in the face of adversity . Francesa and Russo have garnered a reputation for not being knowledgeable when it comes to hockey , though Russo later claimed in his first book that he has watched some regular-season NHL games that many hockey writers would be hard-pressed to . Also , long-time NHL television analysts John Davidson and Pierre McGuire had both been semi-regular guests on the show , and Ed Olczyk had made several appearances since joining NBC . In May 1992 , Russo went to a New York Rangers game against the Pittsburgh Penguins . When Russo arrived at the game , Rangers fans chided him and he eventually left the game . The next day , Francesa went on the air and blasted the Rangers fans for their behavior . They also allegedly had an on-air spat with long-time hockey writer and broadcaster Stan Fischler , who never did another interview on their show . In 2006 , Jaromir Jagr jokingly made fun of their hockey knowledge , to which the duo said that he had sold them on watching more
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