Tom Brady to Face Harsh TV Restrictions If Raiders Ownership Stake Is Approved

[FloridaMan88]

Good because he’s a serial cheater.

And Fox would paying $300+ million for a lead announcer with severely restricted broadcasting access… seems like a waste.

Link: https://www.si.com/nfl/tom-brady-har...wnership-stake

Tom Brady to Face Harsh TV Restrictions If Raiders Ownership Stake Is Approved

Tom Brady's transition to broadcasting may not wind up being as smooth as he'd hoped.

On Wednesday, ESPN's Seth Wickersham reported the NFL was prepared to place harsh restrictions on Brady's broadcast access if he is approved as partial owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. He is set to take over as the color analyst in Fox's No. 1 NFL booth alongside Kevin Burkhardt.

The league confirmed to Wickersham that if Brady is an owner, he would not be allowed to enter another team's facility, watch practice, or attend broadcast meetings in-person or virtually. That would severely hamper his ability to deliver insightful information during games because he wouldn't be allowed to meet with coaches and players of the teams involved before games.

The rules were presented to owners on Tuesday and would seem to only apply to Brady, not the entire Fox broadcast crew. Brady's attempt to take a 10% ownership stake would need to be approved by a minimum of 24 of the league's 32 owners.

Among other restrictions as an owner, Brady would be subject to the league's gambling and anti-tampering policies, and would not be allowed to publicly criticize officials or other teams.

In 2017, then-Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen was added to several Fox broadcasts and faced some similar restrictions.

In 2022, Fox gave Brady a 10-year, $375 million contract to become its No. 1 analyst, and the network can't be thrilled about this development.

[ThrobProng]

[SHOWTIME]

Maybe he’ll finally get his 5th ring without cheating as an owner…

[TribalElder]

This was a master grift job by Tom Brady

step 1, sign a huge TV deal with Fox

step 2, get your ownership stake approved for the Raiders

step 3, you can no longer do the off camera work for the TV job because step 2 prohibits such activities

step 4, profit without doing much work besides showing up on gameday and babbling for a bit

[Fishels]

I still don’t get why the Raiders tho. He always said he’d like to be a Niner when he was growing up. I would rather own part of that team than the Raiders. A team that has almost no fans in Vegas. It’s essentially a tourist spot for Opposing fans

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

This asshole has basically finessed his way into doing less work as a broadcaster (no access to any teams or attendance at production meetings) despite an absurd contract and Fox apparently doesn't give a shit.

It's a really dumb contract at $37.5 million per year, even if Brady was allowed to do the pre-game work. None of the announcers should be paid more than $5 million per year. The audience is tuning in for the teams on the field, not the announcers.