Two hosts, one Michigan grievance, no dead air.
Two hosts spend the show picking fights over Michigan sports and whatever else drifts into range, from a lost NFC championship game to the gambling rules that cost Jameson Williams six games. Listener calls and texts to the ticket text line get pulled straight into the argument rather than saved for the end.
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On 97.1 The Ticket, the Wojo and Rieger show is built on friction between two hosts who treat agreement as a dead end. The format is loose by design. A take gets thrown out, the other host pokes a hole in it, and the two of them chase the argument through examples, exaggerations and callbacks before landing back where they started. Silence is basically absent. The material is Michigan sports and Michigan weather and whatever else the pair can turn into a disagreement. After the Lions lost the NFC championship game, the show spent real time on whether fans could bring themselves to watch the Super Bowl at all, and whether the bye week between the conference title games and the Super Bowl exists to let heartbroken fans recover. The Jameson Williams gambling suspension became an argument about proportion and hypocrisy: six games versus one, the league's own relationship with betting operators, and how a bet on an app gets traced back to a player in the first place. When the conversation turned to Miggy late in his career, one host pushed back hard on anyone letting recent seasons overwrite the rest of his career, framing that view as short-sighted rather than honest. Michigan football supplies a running thread. The prolonged question of whether Harbaugh stays or leaves for Denver gets pulled apart from every angle, including what Santa Ono's public support was actually meant to accomplish and what a program owes its best coach since Lloyd Carr. Not all of it is sports. An episode about winter getting shorter in Michigan spirals into golf tee times in February, the fate of snowplow work, an earlier Tigers opening day, and a bit about a compressed month the hosts call Harbuary. Callers and the ticket text line are part of the mechanism rather than a segment tacked on. Listener opinions get read out, argued with and used as evidence, but the hosts keep control of the frame. Jeff Rieger also carries solo interview segments, including one with Richard Rip Hamilton talking through his NCAA tournament picks, the coaching and talent behind Gonzaga, and the memory of hitting the big shot against Washington in 1998 with Jamal Mashburn and Ray Allen highlights running in his head beforehand. The vocabulary is plain and local, heavy on rhetorical questions and quick corrections. The mood swings from dry to genuinely worked up and back inside a single answer. It is opinionated without being formal, messy without being unfollowable, and it never pretends the outcome of a Lions season is a small thing. Listeners who want polished, evenly paced sports analysis will find this too jagged. Listeners who want the argument itself will not.
Made for: Michigan sports fans who follow the Lions, Tigers and Michigan football closely enough to have opinions about coaching contracts and suspension lengths. It suits anyone who prefers radio arguments and caller sparring over structured interview shows.
What sets it apart: Most sports shows deliver takes; this one puts two hosts on opposite sides of the same take and lets callers and texters push it further off course. The digressions into Michigan winters, golf in February and invented months are part of the appeal rather than filler.
The Riger and Wojo show on 97.1 The Ticket
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detroit sports arguments become sharper through persistent questioning, clashing loyalties, listener reactions, and occasional interviews grounded in basketball experience.
Riger and Wojo Show turns Detroit sports questions into lively arguments that keep changing shape. Wojo and Rieger press each other on Lions disappointment, Jameson Williams' gambling suspension, Miguel Cabrera's final season, and Jim Harbaugh's future at Michigan.
Wojo and Rieger put your Lions heartbreak on trial before you decide whether to watch the Super Bowl.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A bruised Lions fan base debates whether it can stomach the Super Bowl.
The Wojo and Rieger Show sits with a Lions fan base still sore from the NFC championship loss and asks a plain, uncomfortable question: can the Super Bowl still be watchable? The conversation works because it treats that choice as more than routine sports bitterness.
Woj and Riger weigh JMO's Lions gambling punishment against NFL rules, league hypocrisy, and phone-location questions.
Woj and Riger frame JMO's six-game gambling punishment as a blame question with too many possible targets: the player, the Lions, the NFL, and a league increasingly tied to gambling money.
A sharp sports-radio argument about Miggy's legacy, his last season, and what fans should expect at the end.
A sports-radio debate frames Miggy's last year in professional baseball around a familiar but thorny question: how much should a messy final stretch color a celebrated career?
A warmer-weather riff turns February golf into a wider sports-calendar debate, then drifts toward Great Lakes ice fishing.
Warmer weather turns into a loose sports-calendar thought experiment, with the hosts pushing past simple tee-time envy into what a shifted season would actually displace.
A lively Michigan debate on Harbaugh's future, Santa Ono's support, and the NFL uncertainty around him.
Michigan's biggest question is Harbaugh's future, and this episode frames Santa Ono's public support as a measure of how far the school should go to keep him.
A Lions suspension turns into a sharp debate over gambling rules, accountability, and how players might get caught.
Williams' six-game suspension gives Rieger and Wojo a clean sports-talk argument: where the blame belongs. They weigh the NFL's gambling rule, the Lions' unwanted place in the story, and the player's decision to show up in Las Vegas after the suspension.
Fast football radio with sharp betting instincts.
Daily picks with the ledger still open.
Sports talk with a loose screw.
Daily picks with the reasoning attached.
Wojo and Riger discuss Jameson Williams' six-game NFL suspension for gambling and his subsequent Instagram Live appearance in Vegas.
The hosts discuss the NBA All-Star Game format changes and react to Dan Orlovsky's comments about Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions.
A sports talk show host interviews a sportsbook trader about NFL betting lines and quarterback decisions for the upcoming Lions-Bears game.
Wojo and Rieger on 97.1 The Ticket argue over whether Lions fans who say they will not watch the Super Bowl are telling the truth or being "liars." Mike from Detroit says the NFC championship loss left him without the "emotional capacity" for another football game, and the hosts treat that call as evidence the reaction is real.
Jameson Williams was suspended six games, and the hosts focus on whether the Lions or Williams deserve the blame.
Wojo reacts to a February 16th "winter weather advisory" and says, "it doesn't snow in the winter anymore," while Riger jokes that winter may shrink to "10 days long." They connect that idea to golf in February, more baseball, and the end of snow days, with Riger saying he signed up for a snow-plow service and has "paid once and winter's over." A caller named Sandy argues Michigan could become a destination state because it avoids wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme weather.
Riger says Miguel Cabrera's "last year" and "$30 million" salary make his spring-training shape worth criticizing.
Wojo reads Santa Ono’s Twitter statement that he and Ward Manuel want Jim Harbaugh to stay at Michigan, then reads Harbaugh’s reply that he is "in full support" of Ono’s message.
Host Jeff Rieger interviews NBA legend Rip Hamilton about the NCAA tournament, discussing Gonzaga's chances and Hamilton's memories of his college career.
Jeff Rieger interviews Jay Croucher from PointsBet about baseball season betting, including a Tigers run line promotion and team projections.