The now former NFL player and seven-time Super Bowl winner, Tom Brady, will now become the highest-paid NFL analyst in television history by signing a juicy $375 million contract with FOX Sports.
Brady’s relationship with FOX Sports will last 10 years and is expected to begin as soon as possible, although at the moment it is unknown if he will be present at Super Bowl LVII itself between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.
The announcement had already been made in May by the CEO of FOX Corporation, Lachlan Murdoch, but it became official once the quarterback made his retirement official for the second time.
“We are pleased to announce that seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady will join us at FOX Sports as our lead analyst immediately after his playing career,” Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of Fox Corporation, said in May of the year. past.
With the Brady contract, he will surpass other former NFL figures such as former Dallas Cowboys players Troy Aikman and Tony Romo, both panelists for ESPN and CBS respectively.
The three-time NFL regular season MVP will earn more than $37 million a year; an amount greater than the 18 million charged by Aikman and Romo, in their respective chains.
In February 2022 Brady said goodbye to the league for the first time, a decision he regretted 40 days later to play one last season with the Buccaneers, a team with which he was eliminated in the wild card round by the Cowboys on January 16. .
Given the intention to retire shown by the quarterback, who was then 44 years old, in May 2022 FOX Sports went ahead of ESPN in his hiring.
Fox Sports has the rights in the United States to broadcast Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles on February 12, but for now the pair of commentators who will narrate and analyze the game have not been confirmed.