Brady will continue to charge as a commentator almost as much as he does as an NFL player. Photo: AP
Sports legend Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as a football analyst after his playing career, the network announced Tuesday. The deal to take the quarterback as his top NFL game analyst is from 10 years and 375 million dollarsas revealed by The Post.
It’s unclear when Brady will start his new job because the seven-time Super Bowl champion postponed his announced retirement and decided to continue playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in their 23rd NFL season.
It’s about largest contract in the history of sports broadcastingThat’s more than double the $ 18 million per season median annual salary signed by CBS’s Tony Romo and ESPN’s Troy Aikman.
But that’s not all. After a career as a franchise player for the New England Patriots, which led him to six Super Bowl wins, Brady came to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a two -year contract with a salary of 25 million per season. After his flirtation in retirement, he renewed another year in exchange for the same amount, albeit under other conditions that allowed the franchise to release the strict salary limit.
That means TB, wife of supermodel Gisele Bundchen and an ad-funding machine, will earn more in front of microphones than passing balls to her receivers in possibly the last year of her career.
Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch made the announcement at a corporate investor conference call on Tuesday.
“Throughout his long -term agreement, Tom will not only provide narration of our major NFL games with Kevin Buckhardt, but he will also serve as our ambassador, particularly on promotional and client initiatives,” Murdoch said.
Murdoch said it was “completely up to Brady” when he decided to retire and join Fox. Brady guided the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title after the 2020 season and the NFC South championship last season. In 20 seasons under coach Bill Belichick the New England Patriots have won six Super Bowl titles.
Fox recently lost its football reporters, Joe Buck and Aikman himself, a former NFL player, who will follow in his career on ESPN. They are the active commentator couple who have been together the longest on the front lines of football broadcasts.
Buck was offered $ 15.5 million per year to get stuck. And I have no doubt. That’s why Fox Sports went out to look for Burkhardt. And now he’s shaking up the market with Brady.
Source: AP
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