Al Michaels has been in the broadcasting business for a long time, so it’s just a matter of time before he got asked about the deal that Tom Brady reportedly got.
The 44-year-old signed a 10-year, $375 million contract with Fox Sports according to Andrew Marchand. Brady will serve as their lead color analyst for NFL games once he retires.
When the topic of Tom Brady’s mega-deal to eventually join FOX Sports came up, the Amazon play-by-play man found it hard to believe that the network would pay him so much to just be an analyst.
“The Brady deal, I don’t know whether the number is right,” Michaels told Football Morning In America’s Peter King. “I don’t know whether he’s a brand ambassador, whatever that’s supposed to mean. It can’t just be for doing games. It has to be other stuff. In a way, this is just the way it’s gone.”
Adding, “I’ve always felt that the ruination of somebody especially if you’re on a team and the guy at the next locker is making $500,000 more than you and you’re all pissed off about that. Why? We’re all doing pretty well. Enjoy it. Especially at this point of my life, I mean, great. More power to anybody who can get whatever they get. That’s what the market will bear.”
Al Michaels is rolling in dough himself as he recently inked a deal with Amazon somewhere in the five-year, $75 million range.
