Popular NFL insider Peter King of NBC has told the Dan Patrick Show that a dream team broadcasting threesome of Tom Brady, Greg Olsen and Kevin Burkhardt will not work.
King believes the pay disparity and the dynamics of someone like Olsen leading the show, and only earning a quarter of Brady’s estimated salary would not make the broadcast believable.
“Brady obviously is making whatever it is, $37 million, and it would kind of seem absurd that the guy who everybody right now thinks is one of the best or the best (Olsen), making a quarter of what the big star is making and outshining him in the booth,” King explained. “It would just seem pretty weird to me.”
“It would kind of seem absurd that the guy who everybody right now thinks is one of the best or the best, making a quarter of what the big star is making and outshining him in the booth.”
The off-field shenanigans are always devaluing the sport according to King.
“I don’t know who actually looks at a game and says, I’m more eager to watch this because I love the analyst,” King said. “Maybe some people did that with John Madden, I don’t know. But I tend to think the vast, vast, vast majority are going to tune in if Bozo the Clown is the analyst on the game.”
Strong words from King, but he does have a good point.
