Tom Brady to join Fox Sports as lead analyst
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady will be a part of Fox Sports activities as its lead analyst when the seven-times Tremendous Bowl champion’s glittering Nationwide Soccer League profession ends, the community mentioned on Tuesday.
The long-term settlement has Brady calling video games with play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt and serving as an envoy for the community, significantly with respect to consumer and promotional initiatives, the community mentioned in a tweet.
Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed and Fox Sports activities didn’t instantly reply when requested to substantiate a New York Put up report that Brady agreed to a 10-year contract price US$375 million.
“We’re delighted that Tom has dedicated to becoming a member of the Fox group and want him all the very best throughout this upcoming season,” Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch mentioned.
Brady ended a short retirement in March when he mentioned he would return to the Bucs for a twenty third NFL season 40 days after calling time on an age-defying profession throughout which he established himself as arguably the best participant within the sport’s historical past.
The 44-year-old Brady mentioned in a Tweet he was “excited” about becoming a member of Fox however that there was “plenty of unfinished enterprise on the sector with the Buccaneers.”
A evenly regarded prospect popping out of faculty, Brady was the 199th decide within the 2000 NFL Draft however made essentially the most of his likelihood when it lastly got here and in doing so turned across the fortunes of the New England Patriots franchise.
Brady, recognized for his tenacity, clever playmaking skills and noteworthy management, spent 20 seasons with the Patriots the place he received six Tremendous Bowl titles and capped his first season with the Bucs with one other in 2021.
Alongside the best way Brady has additionally rewritten the NFL document guide and holds the mark because the all-time chief in passing yards, passing touchdowns and quarterback wins.
Brady has appeared in a document 10 Tremendous Bowls, profitable the sport’s Most Invaluable Participant award 5 instances, and his 15 Professional Bowl alternatives is essentially the most in league historical past.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, Extra reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; Enhancing by Jan Harvey, Ed Osmond and Toby Davis)
