Fox Sports play-by-play analyst Greg Olsen has been a competitor all of his life, and that competitive spirit has bled into his current gig as a broadcaster. While Olsen says he doesn’t hold any “ill will” toward Tom Brady for essentially taking his job, he recently admitted that it’s been hard on him.
Last year, before Tom Brady officially began his 10-year contract with Fox Sports to be their lead NFL analyst, Greg Olsen served in the top broadcasting spot alongside Kevin Burkhardt and earned rave reviews from fans.
NFL fans are so fond of Olsen, in fact, that many of them were annoyed that he was bumped off the A-team broadcast in favor of Tom Brady despite the fact that Brady is arguably the greatest player in the history of the sport.
During a recent sit-down with The Athletic, the former Chicago Bears, Carolina Panthers and Seattle Seahawks tight end detailed his feels about losing the gig to Brady, stressing that while he doesn’t feel any resentment, he admits that it’s been “hard to sit there and watch games” he used to call.
“I don’t think resentment’s probably accurate. But I also think it’s not too far off if I’m being honest,” Olsen told Joseph Person of The Athletic. “I don’t have any ill will — there’s no personal resentment towards Tom or, obviously, K.B. (Kevin Burkhardt) and Erin (Andrews). I still talk to all of them fairly regularly. I’m hoping to see them next week down in New Orleans and grab dinner or a drink and just kind of shoot the s—, catch up.
“But yeah, it’s hard to sit there and watch games that over the last couple of years you were preparing for, and you were calling. And then you’re sitting there on your couch and you’re watching the game, you’re almost kind of broadcasting the game in your brain. You’re saying, ‘Oh, man, what would I have said on this play? There was so much to talk about there. That would’ve been super fun to dive into.’”
Despite the tepid response to his first season in the broadcast booth and his commitments as a partial owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, the future Hall of Fame quarterback has said he intends to continue calling games for Fox next season.
Super Bowl LIX will be broadcast on Fox, meaning Olsen’s former co-chair Kevin Burkhardt will be calling the game alongside Tom Brady, who will be calling his first-ever Super Bowl.
During his 14 seasons in the NFL, Olsen was a three-time Pro Bowler and became the first tight end in NFL history to have three consecutive seasons of at least 1,000 yards receiving. Across his career, Olsen had 742 catches for 8,683 yards and 60 touchdowns, and is widely considered to be one of the best tight ends of his generation.
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Greg Olsen Admits That He Sometimes Finds Tom Brady-Broadcasted Games ‘Hard To Watch’
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