Greg Olsen flippantly told Tom Brady ‘This TV thing sucks’ during their first Fox meeting
"Greg said, 'Tom, I gotta tell ya, this TV thing sucks.' It was great, we were dying laughing."
"Greg said, 'Tom, I gotta tell ya, this TV thing sucks.' It was great, we were dying laughing."
"There’s always somebody who’s going to be sour no matter what I do. If they don’t like me, I don’t give a fuck."
"When Kraft did that, I think it was more in terms of [Fox] has the Super Bowl two of the next three years and we want somebody [experienced]."
"He had to toil for another year doing hot dog and sausage updates from random ballparks."
Fox appears to have settled on their Super Bowl broadcast team.
Brady will continue to be a prominent figure on NFL Sundays for a very long time.
"I don’t see a whole lot of diversity in the people who are going to be at microphones"
The lead analyst role is still being considered, but it's possible Fox ends up moving both Burkhardt and Greg Olsen up together.
Fox has two of the next three Super Bowls, so their pick matters.
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.
Ortiz showed off his champagne-spraying skills, while Keith Hernandez ducked out of the way, then returned to take a swig.
With so little time to replace Jay Cutler, Fox's No. 2 NFL team is moving on without him.