News: Report: Troy Aikman poised to leave Fox not for Amazon but ESPN

[EST_1986]

no, Sunday night nbc package can

Keep up, they can

The new contracts start in the 2023 season and will continue through 2033, but certain provisions for the ESPN/ABC contract, and the Amazon Prime Video contract, start as soon as the current 2021 season.

The biggest change for ESPN's "Monday Night Football" will be the addition of "flex scheduling". Starting in Week 12 of the 2021 season, ESPN will be allowed to move a select number of games from Sunday to Monday Night Football over the last six (or seven) weeks of the season. "Flex scheduling" was first introduced for Sunday Night Football in 2006.

https://kfyo.com/new-nfl-tv-contrac...-to-flex-monday-night-football-games/[/quote]

 

[EST_1986]

They’re locked into a schedule. Don’t see how you can move teams from Sunday to Monday Night and move other teams out. Edit: Apparently they can now with the new contract deal. Don’t recall any games being flexed on Monday Night this season.

https://kfyo.com/new-nfl-tv-contract-gives-espn-the-right-to-flex-monday-night-football-games/

yea I dont recall any actually being flexed but it now is an option.

 

[JW82]

I know it's rare for a fan nowadays not to have visual access to NFL (and other live sports).
But his broadcast work on radio is great.

he does do Jets games on CBS as well. I actually spoke to him in 93 right after Dallas won SB27. He was on the FAN in NY and had picked Buffalo,
He was a good sport when I called in to mock his pick.

 

[kumizi]

No big loss for Fox IMO. Greg Olsen is better than Troy already. Troy is a good analyst for old or casual fans that dont really want a lot of information or analysis. He is good at stating the obvious things happening as you watch a game. To me, he almost never provides in depth insight that hardcore football fans crave.

I think of Troy as Jay Leno and Romo as Conan. Apparently the majority of US audience prefers the former. As a 30 something, I dont really understand why. Way too vanilla/boring for me.

 

[KJJ]

No big loss for Fox IMO. Greg Olsen is better than Troy already.

It would be a sizable loss for Fox. Olsen is better but he doesn’t have the status Aikman has. They want the Hall of Fame player with the rings and it helps when they played for the Cowboys.

 

[quickccc]

Fox got to a point where they wanted aikman to broadcast twice a week...sundays and thursdays.

i heard per broaadus that Fox broadcast crew such as erin andrews say heads were spinning .

maybe many did not like the direction, plans and tensions were rising...plus remember how aikman cannot stand fellow Fox member Skip Byayless

 

[tyke1doe]

He's only allowed to do it if he sings, "Turn out the light's the party's over," when a game is out of hand.

I think we've had enough of Troy Aikman singing.

 

[gimmesix]

I think we've had enough of Troy Aikman singing.

That one I forgot about.

 

[Diehardblues]

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-poised-to-leave-fox-not-for-amazon-but-espn/

The landscape of NFL broadcasting is in for a major shakeup.

Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that Troy Aikman, who has worked at Fox for two decades, is on the verge of jumping not to Amazon, the company with which he’d been linked for months, but to ESPN for Monday Night Football.

Marchand adds that the deal is not yet done, but that it’s expected to be finalized. It’s also expected, per Marchand, to be comparable to the $18 million annual salary that Tony Romo gets from CBS — if not more.

The move means that Brian Griese and Louis Riddick will exit the Monday Night Football booth. Play-by-play announcer Steve Levy likely also will be reassigned.

The next question becomes who will Aikman’s partner be? Al Michaels reportedly wanted Aikman at Amazon; would Michaels go to ESPN instead? Would Fox allow Joe Buck to exit the company to continue his longstanding partnership with Aikman?

I’m curious why Aikman couldn’t do MNF on ESPN and TNF on Amazon?

Wasn’t he double dipping this past year on Thur nites?

 

[Diehardblues]

Aikman brings instant legitimacy back to Mon night .

And they renegotiated last year to broadcast better matchups if you didn’t notice.

He could also still do TNF on Amazon. Maybe double dip becoming the highest paid broadcaster ever. We can only hope.

 

[Tussinman]

MNF need to have better match ups. Really dont see the point of MNF anf TNF. It been very trash lately. I recall when TNF came out execlusive on NFLN. They use to have some great match ups. Now its just meh.

MNF is bad but TNF was actually pretty good during the span that it was on national fox (I think it was from week 4 to 14). The portion on national fox was alot better then regular TNF and MNF

 

[atlantacowboy]

This, it is not like the Monday Night games we use to get with Howard, Don and Frank in the early 70’s.

The NFL was more predictable back then. In the 70's, you pretty much knew the Steelers, Cowboys, Dolphins, Vikings, Raiders would be good every year and you could count on a good football game. Now, the NFL is year to year? Who had Cincy in the super bowl?

 

[ShortRound]

 

[The Fonz]

Bad move from Troy MNF is dead

 

[32BellyOption]

Bad move from Troy MNF is dead

I stopped watching when Booger hovered over the sideline. Lol!

 

[RomoIsGod]

I heard Joe Buck is coming too.

 

[Floatyworm]

I will only watch ESPN when the Cowboys are on. A once great station has been destroyed.

....the day Fired all the conservatives...
Was the turning point...been a dumpster fire ever since.

 

[TequilaCowboy]

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-poised-to-leave-fox-not-for-amazon-but-espn/

The landscape of NFL broadcasting is in for a major shakeup.

Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that Troy Aikman, who has worked at Fox for two decades, is on the verge of jumping not to Amazon, the company with which he’d been linked for months, but to ESPN for Monday Night Football.

Marchand adds that the deal is not yet done, but that it’s expected to be finalized. It’s also expected, per Marchand, to be comparable to the $18 million annual salary that Tony Romo gets from CBS — if not more.

The move means that Brian Griese and Louis Riddick will exit the Monday Night Football booth. Play-by-play announcer Steve Levy likely also will be reassigned.

The next question becomes who will Aikman’s partner be? Al Michaels reportedly wanted Aikman at Amazon; would Michaels go to ESPN instead? Would Fox allow Joe Buck to exit the company to continue his longstanding partnership with Aikman?

And then it begins.....Sean Payton to join Fox.. Been telling you guys all along who thought he was setting up to come to Dallas.. Hogwash, he sure as heck would never work for Jerry. He is burned out on coaching and needs time with his family, plus earn more than he has earned before. How can you turn that down?

 

[Motorola]

The NFL was more predictable back then. In the 70's, you pretty much knew the Steelers, Cowboys, Dolphins, Vikings, Raiders would be good every year and you could count on a good football game. Now, the NFL is year to year? Who had Cincy in the super bowl?

That's part of the appeal of the league nowadays.
Franchises that have been terrible for a decade or more can suddenly put together a team contends for a championship.
Bengals and Bills were among the AFC's best in 80's and early 90's; both endured three decades of futility before resurging recently.
Washington and Dallas tumbled from their lofty perches to being bad to middling in this century (a few division titles and playoff appearances for both).
San Francisco kept being a contender into the early 2000s - then had 7 losing seasons out of 8 (one .500 year). But from 2011 through 2021, the 49ers have been in 5 NFC Championship games and 2 Super Bowls.
Heck- just four postseasons ago, Jacksonville was one quarter away from making in to the Super Bowl -
and Philadelphia won it.
At the start of the 2022 NFL calendar year - which teams that looks like longshots to even a have a good season - break through and duplicate what the Bengals did?

 

[GMO415]

Yawn. I could care less. Don't like him much as an analyst.