Vast majority of 45 year olds need to work to support their families
I can't put into words how utterly silly it is to think "45 year old wants to keep working even though he doesn't need to" is a moral flaw.
If Alex Rodriguez can be good on TV - there's plenty of room for Brady to do so. His social media team and marketing are on point. I really think the guy is milquetoast because he is just that focused on trying to win games. I remember one interview with him early in his career on EEI in the afternoon where he was talking about how a great night was staying in, eating pizza, and watching porn.
i will be shocked if he plays in 2023 22 is it for brady as long as tampa gets in the playoffs only Inj can stop them form winning in 22 brady is year to year the only way i couild see him playing in 23 is SF goes 7-10 Lynch and shanny are fried SF trades two ones a 23 two and three to tampa because lynch has had 2 shots at brady and passed both times
Agree. I guess he can get better, but Peyton Manning was much funnier and better when he hosted SNL in 07. Made fun of himself being taunted by Pats fans when arriving at Logan. I think he is a better commentator.
Well, it'll set him up nicely if he wants to run for Senator or something, a la Tom Osborne (or a dozen others we could name). People are used to seeing him, but not used to hearing him talk and try to be interesting.
I think he really needs structure/direction, whether it is football or something else, I think he would go nuts with even six months of no structured work responsibilities.
Yeah. This is a super-competitive, uber-successful 45 year old dude. Those types of people don't just go cold turkey and play golf in any industry. The fact that Tom wants to keep working is completely unsurprising. And if Fox wants to pay him $375MM for a few days of work a week, what rational person is saying no?
It’s no disservice to Brady to criticize FOX for this deal. To assert that people have “no business” doing so - in the media thread - feels like you are missing the entire point of the discussion.
Politicians have overcome far worst scandals than Spygate (which had nothing to do w/ Brady) or Deflategate. Herschel Walker may yet win a Senate seat; Tommy Tubberville did win a seat.
I agree. I wasn't adressing the "Fox" part of the conversation so much as the "Brady is boring and will suck at this" part. I should have been more clear.
So we are just going to let this slide? The idea Arod is good on TV?
First of all, Francis, lighten up.
Well, at the time of the interview, he couldn't have dreamed someone would offer him over 1/3 of a billion to be on TV before he retired. I understand that means he can't spend every single waking minute in the role of husband/dad, but his workload will be much less taxing, and I'm guessing the family is OK with getting filthy rich(er) with hubby/dad taking this part-time gig. I can't fault him/them for that.
Again, his sappy interview or statement is why he gets laughed at.
Last data I saw was that Brady is the most hated player in the NFL. I don't think that matters much when he becomes a broadcaster though. People hated Howard Cosell too.
Brady looks like this almost every offseason. I’m not saying the man hasn’t aged well, but all the water and avocados in the world don’t keep your skin that tight.
I saw that, too! Between the black shirt, the facework, makeup and eyebrows, he looked like he was auditioning for a Kraftwerk tribute band.
Last night looked like more than that. Maybe he's just lost weight, or he let his kids put his makeup on, or the lighting in the rumpus room wasn't TV/zoom optimal. But he looked like a 55 year old trying to look 35. (IOW, like everyone I see in South Florida when I visit my 90-year old mother.)
If you want to watch the football game on television, you dont really have much of a choice on the broadcasters, other than mute. To me, that's a solid "no" to your question. I suppose if you have two neutral games on opposite each other, you have some kind of choice, but I refuse to believe that more than a handful of viewers say, "I'm gonna watch Jags-Lions, not Giants-Panthers because I can't get me enough Adam Archuleta and I can't stand that James Lofton."
A handful is generous. You watch an NFL game for one of 3 reasons: 1) it's a marquee national matchup; 2) gambling / fantasy; 3) your local team.
I absolutely do choose what games and indeed sports I want to watch (or not watch) from time to time on the basis of who the commentators are, yes.
I’d venture to guess that you, a commentator yourself, are in the vast minority with this. A lot of us will pick and choose home/away announcers with MLB.tv because it’s an option. I highly doubt many people tune in just to hear (insert announcer)‘s commentary.
I think the question is do you (or more particularly does a casual fan) watch football or do something else with that time, and having big name announcers etc might make it more likely that the casual football fan watches football instead of going apple picking or watching westworld on HBO or reading a book. Whether the network's math is right is another issue.
Oh, I very rarely tune into a game just to hear an announcer's commentary. But I'll absolutely avoid or turn off a game when the commentary is bad or annoying enough. And e.g. when I'm choosing which college football game to watch on a Saturday and I don't particularly root for or against any of the teams, who is commentating on each game absolutely makes a difference.
I agree. I watched some Olympic events this year due strictly to the commentator
Could you elaborate on this point a bit more? I would think advertisers would only be concerned with number of viewers (and demographics) during a broadcast that their ads get eyeballs on. Assuming Brady is getting the top tier game for Fox each week if he's not generating a significant bump in eyeballs versus the other guy why would advertisers be willing to pay more in revenue?
I'll take a stab, based almost entirely on cynicism, not inside knowledge. The highest-level decision-makers at the ad agencies and advertisers themselves are willing to pay so they can play golf with Tom Brady once during the run of the tv deal. This is less ( or no more than) about the overall soundness of such a deal than it is catering to the ego-driven whims of the corner-office people to buy another toy they can brag about. "We got Brady...."
