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Boomer & Gio

Gio Stands Up For Byron "Whizzer" White

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Gio asks why the NFLPA Man of the Year award is no longer named for Whizzer White but rather Alan Page.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Speaking of things getting stolen, I thought I found this actually, you know, pretty sad.

0:03.8

You remember Hardy Nickerson, right?

0:05.3

Yes, I do.

0:06.7

So Hardy Nickerson took a job coaching a high school team in California, and the movers stopped at a hotel for the night, and somebody robbed the truck with his stuff in it.

0:18.2

God.

0:18.7

And they took the 1998 Byron Wright Man of the Year award, which he really wants back more than

0:26.7

anything.

0:27.2

Byron White.

0:28.4

Byron Whizzer White Man of the Year.

0:31.1

It's not Byron Wright.

0:32.3

It's Byron White.

0:33.6

White.

0:34.8

Byron Whizzer White.

0:36.3

Yeah, his nickname, Whizzer. Yes. And I believe it's an NFL. And it's white, not right? Because it's right on the show sheet. I think it's white. But his nickname is Wizzar? Correct. And I do believe it's given by the NFLPA. Okay. That's an award that's given, I believe, given by the NFLPA. So, yeah, these sons of bitches took it. And he's pissed Hardy, Nickerson. Let's see, Whizzer. White? Wizard White, yeah. duped by the show sheet there again. Al screwed that up. It's on the show sheet. It is right.

1:11.1

Yeah, I wasn't familiar with Wissor.

1:13.6

So now that I'm learning about him, now I know.

1:15.7

Clearly, neither was I.

1:18.4

And there he is.

1:19.2

There's the Wissor.

1:21.8

He's, uh,

1:22.7

it's been dead since 2002.

1:26.2

But what a life by the Wiz.

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