Awful Announcing
"Whatever happens in the offseason, listen, I hope Brady signs a five-year deal with [an NFL team]. I'll be the first guy there. I'll give 'em some cap room to make it work."
"Multiple industry sources say Fox Sports has no plans to use Brady in the booth for the Super Bowl."
"Greg said, 'Tom, I gotta tell ya, this TV thing sucks.' It was great, we were dying laughing."
"Until I started doing it, I don't even really know if I ever paid attention to broadcasters."
"I want it to be like, ‘I know Brady’s coming, but damn, I don’t want to replace this guy.’"
Fox's long-term plan makes sense, but it's tough not to feel bad for Greg Olsen.
"I can at least live with the only person in the world who beat me out was Tom Brady."
Fox appears to have settled on their Super Bowl broadcast team.
Fox has two of the next three Super Bowls, so their pick matters.
Olsen's rise in media continues with the launch of Audiorama, an audio network with plenty of big names involved.
Richard Deitsch of The Athletic reports that Fox management is high on Olsen, and that he's the "leading contender" for the No. 1 analyst job at this point, but with much still up in the air.
Greg Olsen is the latest player to make the jump to broadcasting, though he was clearly headed in that direction whenever he stopped playing.
Olsen reportedly received full-time broadcasting offers from multiple networks, but has chosen to keep playing for now.
Olsen has already worked as both a game and studio analyst.
In recent years we’ve seen some of the best and worst that comes from pro football players segueing...
Olsen hasn't decided yet on playing next year. When he does retire, he's likely headed to broadcasting.
