The duo will replace Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who called games in Fox’s top booth for 20 years before jumping ship for ESPN’s Monday Night Football in March.
That works out to $37.5 million a year, which would easily be the largest sportscasting contract in television history and nearly double the reported salaries of Aikman and Tony Romo, CBS’s top NFL analyst.
There’s been a lot of media speculation about Brady’s post-football career, and his potential interest in a career in broadcasting.
“Tom Brady never, ever, ever, wants to go in the car line again and drop off his kids off,” ESPN analyst Booger McFarland joked on Get Up Tuesday morning.
It remains likely he’ll be joined by former Panthers tight end Greg Olsen, who was Burkhardt’s broadcast partner in Fox’s No.
It wouldn’t be the first time an active player called a Super Bowl — Joe Theismann called Super Bowl XIX on ABC after the 1984 season as a guest analyst while he was still on Washington’s roster.
