Greg Olsen knows the equivalent of the broadcasting to be on the sidelines and is not a fan.
The former advertiser at the end of the NFL Super Bowl 59 Like the rest of us rather than our favorite alternative. Olsen has found a house in the broadcast stand, becoming one of the most friendly and informative people to put on the helmet of the League at the moment.
He has only two years of the call Super Bowl 57Gaining glowing criticism among the public. Now, Olsen, 39, is on the Fox Sports bench, replaced by Tom Brady in the analyst president for the best NFL announcement team of the network.
“In my mind, I will again recall large -scale matches”, ” Olsen told Charlotte observing in an interview on Monday. “I’m going to call Super Bowl’s games again. I simply do not know the chronology or the place.
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Olsen was demolished in team n ° 2 of Fox after the arrival of Brady on the network. He was twinned with Joe Davis, the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers of MLB and the World Series on Fox. This decision came a significant salary reduction, spending his salary from $ 10 million to $ 3 million, According to the New York Post.
His former partner, Kevin Burkhardt, is expected to call the Super Bowl in New Orleans alongside Brady. Burkhardt and Olsen were team No. 2 of Fox before heading for first place after Joe Buck and Troy Aikman left for ESPN.
Olsen clearly indicated that he was not a fan of being again n ° 2.
“It is quite clear that the path, the ascending trajectory with regard to Fox, is probably a non-factor,” he said. “I don’t know what the future has in store for us. I like to work at Fox. Fox was very good with me. They know. I was very honest with them that I don’t just call one Regional time for the rest of my career.
However, despite his misfortune, Olsen does not hold him against Brady.
“I don’t think resentment is probably precise,” Olsen told the person Joe of athletics in a recent interview
“But yes, it is difficult to sit there and watch matches that in the past two years you are preparing, and you called. And then you sit there on your sofa and you watch the match, you have almost a kind of game broadcasting in your brain. You say: “Oh, guy, what would I have said on this piece? There was so much to talk there. It would have been super fun to dive. “”
With only two years on his contract in Fox, he remains to be seen where Olsen could then head if the first job does not open to his current employer.
Fox A Brady for nine years more to finish aContract at 10 years and $ 375 million. ESPN A Aikman. CBS Tony Romo. NBC Cris Collinsworth.
No one seems to be in motion anytime soon, especially after NBC has inked Collinsworth to an extension in the Super Bowl 2030, According to athletics.
The next NFL rights agreement is only until 2032, while Amazon should teach for the rights to the big game.
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With each of the four networks that disseminate super bowls with a long -term commitment to its main analysts, it is difficult to see the Olsen path.
Although it is a long shot at best, the most clear path to follow is that Brady is moving away to get more involved in his participation Las Vegas raiders. However, despite controversy surrounding its involvement thereHe gave no indication of this.
Olsen compared his two years as n ° 1 analyst to have beautiful accommodation.
“It’s like staying in a very beautiful hotel,” said Olsen. “And until you stay in this hotel, you say to yourself:” I’m good anywhere. “”
Time will tell us if he comes back to live a luxury life. At the very least, he surely has enough reward points now.