After winning their second Super Bowl in four years, the Chiefs are once again a favorite to go back to the Super Bowl and there is one broadcasting duo that will be calling a ton of their games in 2023.
Speaking to Rich Eisen on Friday, CBS announcer Jim Nantz revealed that he and Tony Romo will be extending their voices to the Super Bowl champions multiple times in 2023.
Romo and Nance will call them first when the Chiefs take on the Minnesota Vikings in Week 5.
“Week 7, I anticipate we’ll be doing Chargers at KC… And then we’ll see them again Weeks 14, 16, and 17,” Nantz said, via Awful Announcing. “In the month of December, [I’m] basically gonna live in KC. I’ve got Buffalo at KC [in] Week 14, Vegas at KC on Christmas Day, Cincinnati at KC on New Year’s Eve, so those are blockbuster games.”
Awful Announcing reported that Nantz called eight Patriots games in 2012 and seven Denver Broncos matchups in both 2013 and 2014 after the team got Peyton Manning. It now looks like the dup will be heavily called on to announce Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
Eisen pointed out that Nantz and Romo could then call three straight playoff games.
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“I think there’s a really strong chance we’d see them Divisional Weekend and AFC Championship Week, and maybe even in Las Vegas [for Super Bowl LVIII]. So, you add it up, if they were to make that kind of run all the way to the Super Bowl, I think it adds up to nine games that we would see. Eight or nine games of the Chiefs.”
The overall excitement around Tony Romo has gone down in recent years. The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback has faced mounting criticism in recent years, culminating with his call of this year’s AFC Championship Game. It has gotten to the point this offseason that reports emerged that CBS executives staged an “intervention” with Romo.
In an interview with Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News earlier this year, Romo said the criticism hasn’t bothered him.
“I think that’s normal,” Romo said. “I think that happens to anybody. Anytime you’re doing something well I think there’s always going to be that. It’s just the arc type of someone’s career. It’s happened to me a few times before, and that’s a good thing.”
Romo compared the criticism to what he faced during his 13-year career with the Cowboys.
After his retirement from the league, Romo signed a 10-year contract worth roughly $17 million per year to be the color commentator alongside Nantz on the CBS A-team.
Despite how anybody feels, Romo won’t be going anywhere.
