No pressure, Tom. No way.
Broadcasting newbie Tom Brady was already in a tough situation after being given the job at Fox that Greg Olsen had held to great public acclaim. To complicate the issues and add to the embarrassment, Olsen won another Emmy for the position which he lost to a bigger name who it may not be a better broadcaster.
Olsen won the award last night. As noted by AwfulAnnouncing.com, the other nominees in the category were Cris Collinsworth, Troy Aikman, Bill Raftery, John Smoltz and Tom Verducci.
This was Olsen’s second consecutive victory in the Outstanding Personality/Event Analyst category.
“I think a lot of people are wondering what I’m going to say now,” Olsen said to begin his acceptance speech.
“I don’t know what the future holds,” he later said. “All I know is I like talking about football, I like talking about balls. I love studying it. I love seeing where the game is going. Wherever it takes me, whatever my level, I am now more engaged in football. My wife lets me chase this every weekend after 15 years of a strange life of traveling across the country playing this game, now I travel across the country calling a game.
Fox posted congratulations in Olsen on X. The answers are worth the price of admission.
Olsen would join the Fox #2 team with Joe Davis. Olsen’s salary would drop from $10 million per year to $3 million, while Brady’s would get $37.5 million.
Olsen will surely be a candidate for the top spot on another network, whenever a top spot becomes available. Which doesn’t happen often.
The Emmy win adds to the mess Fox created for itself by chasing a name, throwing a giant bag of money at it, and putting it in an impossible situation. On many weekends this year, Olsen will inevitably play the 1 p.m. ET game that takes place across most of the country, and Brady will play the game at 4:25 p.m. ET. This will create the ultimate apples-to-apples comparison for football fans who tune into the NFL Matrix on Sunday afternoons.
It will be interesting to see what happens next year, when the Emmy folks announce the nominees in this same category. Will Olsen win it a third straight time from second place at Fox? Will Brady even be nominated?
Brady’s name and aura will help his cause, in some circles. This will harm his cause among others. At some point it will come down to two very simple things: (1) what he says; and (2) how it sounds. It is something that is completely independent of who the person is and what they have accomplished in another field.
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