Greg Olsen isn't calling Super Bowl for Fox. Tom Brady is — and Olsen says 'it sucks'

Greg Olsen was a cardinal portion of the second-most-watched TV broadcast of each time.

On Feb. 12, 2023, much than 115 cardinal radical tuned successful to Super Bowl LVII to spot the Kansas City Chiefs decision the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35. The crippled was broadcast connected Fox, with Kevin Burkhardt handling the play-by-play duties and Olsen providing colour commentary.

Next period could supply an encore of sorts. Super Bowl LIX is backmost connected Fox. The Eagles and Chiefs are backmost arsenic the competitors. Burkhardt volition beryllium backmost successful the broadcast booth, and Olsen ... well, helium won’t beryllium back.

Olsen was replaced arsenic Burkhardt’s spouse connected Fox’s No. 1 broadcast squad this play by NFL fable Tom Brady, who volition wrapper up his rookie play arsenic a commentator astatine the biggest crippled of the year. In a bid of interviews this week to beforehand an lawsuit for his “The Heartest Yard” foundation, Olsen made wide however helium feels astir being demoted and near retired of the network’s postseason plans.

“It sucks,” Olsen told the Charlotte Observer.

He told the Athletic that portion “resentment” astir apt isn’t the astir close connection to picture his feelings connected the situation, “I besides deliberation it’s not excessively acold off, if I’m being honest.”

“I don’t person immoderate sick volition — there’s nary idiosyncratic resentment towards Tom, oregon evidently K.B. and Erin [Andrews],” Olsen said. “I inactive speech to each of them reasonably regularly. ... But yeah, it’s hard to beryllium determination and ticker games that implicit the past mates of years you were preparing for and you were calling.”

A three-time Pro Bowl enactment astatine choky end, Olsen ended his 14-year NFL vocation pursuing the 2020 season. He joined Fox successful 2021 and was paired with Burkhardt successful the broadcast booth.

When Joe Buck and Troy Aikman near Fox for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” Burkhardt and Olsen became Fox’s No. 1 announcing team. As such, they got to telephone the network’s biggest games each week and passim the postseason. In the 2022 season, that included the Super Bowl.

The duo proved to beryllium fashionable with fans, with an AwfulAnnouncing.com scholar survey ranking Burkhardt and Olsen arsenic TV’s fourth-best NFL broadcast squad successful 2023. For that aforesaid year, Olsen won the Sports Emmy for champion lawsuit analyst.

But Olsen’s days arsenic portion of that squad were numbered from the beginning.

In May 2022, Fox and Brady agreed to a 10-year, $375-million deal that would marque the seven-time Super Bowl champion the network’s pb shot expert erstwhile his playing days were over. Brady retired aft the 2022 season, past took the 2023 play disconnected earlier joining Burkhardt successful the booth past fall.

Olsen landed connected his feet. He and caller spouse Joe Davis whitethorn beryllium considered Fox’s No. 2 broadcast team, but they were voted by Awful Announcing readers arsenic the best broadcast booth this season — 13 spots higher than the Burkhardt/Brady booth. Olsen besides teamed with Noah Eagle to telephone the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans crippled for Netflix connected Christmas Day.

It’s not capable for Olsen.

“My extremity is to telephone apical games,” helium told the Athletic. “I’ve been precise adamant astir that implicit the past mates years. My extremity is inactive to get backmost there. I don’t cognize what that looks like. I don’t cognize wherever that takes place. But I’m continuing to enactment towards that extremity and hopefully person the accidental [to] get backmost to calling these marquee games.”

Where that mightiness hap remains to beryllium seen. Olsen told the Observer helium has 2 years near connected his declaration with Fox. Barring thing unforeseen, Brady would look to person the apical expert spot locked down astatine that web for the amended portion of the adjacent decade.

“It’s beauteous wide that the path, the upward trajectory arsenic acold arsenic Fox goes, astir apt is simply a nonfactor,” Olsen told the Observer. “... I don’t cognize what the aboriginal holds. I bask moving astatine Fox. Fox has been precise bully to me. They know. I’ve been precise honorable with them that I’m not contented conscionable calling 1 o’clock determination games for the remainder of my career.”