With his retirement from the NFL, Tom Brady is no longer judged by wins and losses. But that doesn’t mean he’ll be anything less than dedicated when he begins his 10-year, $375 million announcing job with Fox Sports this fall.
“Certainly as a broadcaster, I don’t think it’s about competition for me,” Brady he told Colin Cowherd on Monday’s show.
‘For me, it’s about, ‘Did I put everything I could into this?’ Did I give the fans everything they tuned into? Brady asked rhetorically.
“That’s how I’ll end up measuring myself and have to look at myself at the end of every Sunday night thinking, ‘Did I do a good enough job?’ Did I live up to the belief that Fox had in me? Did I live up to the expectations of my teammates Kevin Burkhardt and Erin (Andrews) and Tom (Rinaldi) and Richie Zyontz and Rich Russo and our entire truck and our entire team Ultimately, that’s how I’m going to judge myself in that new role? ”.
But Brady isn’t just moving up in the announcer’s booth. He also wants to get a foot in the owner’s box, provided he and the NFL can find a way to approve his purchase of a minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders.
Tom Brady is preparing to take over as Fox Sports’ top NFL color commentator this fall
Brady is seen alongside his Las Vegas Aces co-owner Mark Davis, who also owns the Raiders.
It remains to be seen how close the seven-time Super Bowl champion is to joining the league’s ownership club.
Owners did not vote in March on Brady’s plan to add a stake in the Raiders to her minority ownership in the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces. The league concluded its spring meetings Wednesday at a Nashville hotel without a vote on Brady’s offer that has been pending for about a year.
“The finance committee has done its job on this and we still have a little more to do,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said May 22.
NFL owners are not scheduled to meet again until October.
One issue is the price Brady agreed to pay to join George Halas and Jerry Richardson as the third former NFL player to be an owner. Owners want to make sure Brady doesn’t get a discount, especially given how the value of NFL franchises continues to rise.
And Brady’s new job with Fox Sports also complicates things.
Television broadcasters not only have pregame production meetings with team coaches, but they can also watch practices as part of their preparation. That’s a lot of access for someone with a potential financial interest in one of the NFL’s 32 teams.
“That was one of the factors on what the access would be like each week as a media member as you prepare for the game broadcast,” Goodell said. ‘And we’ve addressed that too. So we are making progress.”
