For this upcoming season, NFL fans will be getting used to not hearing the voices of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman on Sundays.
Both have run to more money and signed on with ESPN’s Monday Night Football booth.
Erin Andrews knew Fox would respond with a splash, but she had no clue it would be Tom Brady.
“At this time, Tom was retired,” Andrews recalled in a conversation with Jimmy Traina. “I may or may not have put a text out there or a DM or whatever and just said, ‘hey, what are you doing next year? You wanna come be a part of our crew?’”
Andrews thought Peyton Manning would take over Aikman’s spot in the booth.
“For a month, maybe two weeks, going into when it was announced. I thought we were getting Peyton Manning,” Andrews continued. “I had convinced myself we were getting Peyton Manning.”
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“I just wasn’t believing everything I was reading,” she said of reports that Peyton wasn’t interested. “And I knew FOX was swinging for the fences and I just got that sense. I never for once thought it was Tom.”
Manning has made it clear that he doesn’t have an interest in calling games. Instead, he chose to launch the Manningcast, which he can do more casually and from the confines of his own home.
Brady won’t officially take over for Troy Aikman until he retires from football. Once he does, he reportedly has a $375 million contract waiting for him.
