Bob Wischusen, the Jets’ play-by-play radio announcer, was a 26-year-old “guy with a tape deck over my shoulder and a microphone in the locker room, part of the gaggle” when Aaron Glenn was the team’s star cornerback. Fast forward to 2002 when Wischusen, a Jersey native, became the team’s full-time play-by-play guy and Glenn had moved on to Houston.
Now, fast, fast forward to 2025. Versatile behind the microphone, Wischusen, 53, is back for another season … and so is Glenn as the team’s new head coach.
“Like this matters to him, being here matters to him,” Wischusen told team reporter Eric Allen on “The Official Jets Podcast.” “Being asked to come back to where he was drafted into the league and basically played the majority of his career, began a family, that’s in his DNA and it matters to him. And I think that it really seems like he and [GM] Darren Mougey are very much kind of the same mindset of how they want to build a football team, and they’re not into making headlines. They’re really into foundationally putting a team together that hopefully the guys that are already on the team that can be stars can benefit from that foundation.”
Wischusen has worn many hats in his broadcasting career, which began at Boston College’s 1,000-watt FM station and has expanded to WFAN and WABC radio with the Jets; stints with the Knicks and calling Arena League Football on MSG Network; covering playoff baseball as a field reporter for NBC; and college football and basketball, and recently the NHL playoffs for ESPN.
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