When Steve Somers first started at WFAN in 1987, the beloved former sports talk host didn’t think he’d make it past his first year on the airwaves.

“I always thought I was going to get fired,” Somers told The Post in a phone conversation. “I remember after the first year that I was there, talking to my mother and father in San Francisco, where I was crying on the phone, I was so happy I was renewed. I mean, I didn’t know whether my shtick was gonna work or not. The agent that I had at the time said I would do well in New York because of my sense of humor. Being sarcastic, being somewhat sardonic, a little bit ironic and a little bit iconic. So he thought I would do okay in New York, but he was the only one.”

Safe to say 34 years at one of the country’s best-known sports talk radio statio

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