The last time FOX was preparing to broadcast a Super Bowl game, Greg Olsen was on the call. Two years later, FOX has the call again. But the booth won’t include Olsen.
Instead it will be Tom Brady and Kevin Burkhardt for Super Bowl LIX between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs.
“It sucks,” Olsen told the Charlotte Observer’s Scott Fowler.
Olsen was bumped to FOX’s No. 2 crew ahead of the 2024 NFL season to welcome Brady as the network’s lead analyst. Olsen’s analysis and commentary quickly became the talk of social media, with people praising the work he did in the booth week after week.
“In my mind, I’m going to call big-time games again,” Olsen told Fowler. “I’m going to call Super Bowl games again. I just don’t know the timeline or the venue.”
Olsen doesn’t know what the future holds. And while he enjoys working at FOX, he wants to call more than just regional games.
“I’ve been very honest with them that I’m not content just calling one o’clock regional games for the rest of my career,” he said.
Brady is locked into FOX for nine more years and plans to honor that deal despite being minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and facing restrictions as a broadcaster.
It essentially blocks Olsen from returning to the No. 1 spot in the near future, but that doesn’t mean Olsen won’t call more nationally broadcast games whether that’s with FOX or another network.
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