What's the Best Size TV To Watch Sports Ahead Of Football Season? artwork

What's the Best Size TV To Watch Sports Ahead Of Football Season?

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

August 10, 2026

Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle, and Pete Hoffman discuss their television set-ups for watching sports as the NFL season rapidly approaches -- even if Big Mac is going to be watching baseball until the Giants' preseason officially starts.
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle

Topics: Sports

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
I made a decision, I told my wife over the weekend, I go this, we're very blessed, I have a 50-inch television in my one television living room. I've got a 50-inch-er, which I'm very proud of, a 50-inch Samsung TV.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:17)
Very nice.

**Craig Carton** (0:19)
It's not enough.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:20)
No. It's not enough. You need multiple TVs. Well, I've decided.

**Craig Carton** (0:24)
Get with it. I'm not sure where I'm going or what I'm doing yet, but before football season, I think I'm going 75
75 inches.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:35)
Well, that's great.

**Craig Carton** (0:36)
And I'll take the 50 and move it.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:39)
Okay, good.

**Craig Carton** (0:39)
So I'm a second television.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:41)
Yes, okay.

**Craig Carton** (0:42)
I don't know where I'm going to put it. On the floor, maybe on a stand or something.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:45)
No, your wall's not big enough for two TVs?

**Craig Carton** (0:48)
I have a very small place. As much as you might think, I'm living in the lap of luxury. Yeah, I only have one wall.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:54)
Sure, it's very...

**Craig Carton** (0:54)
And it's right above the fireplace. Yeah, the other walls have things on them. I don't know, bookshelf, a window, that kind of thing.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:03)
All right, yeah, get a stand and put it off in the corner, even if it's just brought out for Sundays.

**Craig Carton** (1:08)
That's what I'm thinking, make it a portable type thing. Get a stand on wheels.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:12)
Yeah, wheel it in like a substitute teacher, wheels in that TV, wheel it all on it.

**Craig Carton** (1:16)
Now, but this is kind of a guy thing, and I acknowledge the fact that this is an insecurity of mine. Okay. So just so I'm sure I'm being a little vulnerable with you today.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:27)
I appreciate that.

**Craig Carton** (1:28)
How big is your biggest TV?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:31)
I forget, but it's either, you said it doesn't come, it's 75, right? You said they don't come even or they don't come odd?

**Craig Carton** (1:36)
They come odd numbers, TVs are odd numbers.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:37)
So how do you have a 50-inch, that's an even number?

**Craig Carton** (1:41)
Maybe I measured wrong.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:42)
Okay.

**Craig Carton** (1:42)
51?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:43)
I don't know. I think it's somewhere between 75

**Craig Carton** (1:46)
Don't you measure corner to corner diagonally?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:48)
I think you do, yes.

**Craig Carton** (1:49)
Yeah. Well, the tape measure kept falling off of it.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:52)
Yeah, I hate tape measure.

**Craig Carton** (1:53)
But I'm going 50

**Chris McMonigle** (1:54)
I think I'm somewhere between 75 and 80

**Craig Carton** (1:56)
Between 75 and 80?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:58)
I don't think it's smaller than 75, and I'm pretty sure it's not bigger than 80 So yeah, it's somewhere in there.

**Craig Carton** (2:02)
So now I got to get 85?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:04)
If you got to one up, me sure. But I have three TVs and the other two are-

**Craig Carton** (2:07)
You're always going to beat me on the total. But I think the big TV, the problem is that it's a small wall above the fireplace.
It might cover the- And is it just wall?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:18)
Is it stone or anything? Sometimes above the fireplace could be stone, just drywall? Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (2:24)
So the problem is that there's a little shelf. What do you call that? A shelf, but a little thing.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:28)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (2:29)
Like above the fireplace?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:30)
A mantle.

**Craig Carton** (2:31)
A mantle. I've got a mantle.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:32)
You've got a mantle.

**Craig Carton** (2:33)
I've got a mantle. I think if I get the big one, the mantle gets covered, which I don't care. I'm not an interior designer.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:41)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (2:41)
But wives seem to care about mantles.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:45)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (2:45)
That being said-

**Chris McMonigle** (2:46)
Well, it wouldn't be so much that the mantle would get covered. It would just be you wouldn't be able to put anything on the mantle.

**Craig Carton** (2:51)
I think you would come in front of the mantle.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:54)
Then you'd have to have one of those.

**Craig Carton** (2:56)
I think.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:56)
You'd have to have one of those. Like an extended arm thing.

**Craig Carton** (2:59)
Which is fine, like I'm pretty good at kind of building stuff and installing stuff. That being said, and this is where I'm being very vulnerable. And I always think leaders lead from the front. So as a man, I want to lead from the front and show you that it's okay for a man to be vulnerable.

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