2 play-by-play voice for “Monday Night Football.” Icon Sportswire via Getty Images That trio received one more year together under normal circumstances before Buck and Aikman were brought in last year.Īikman signed a five-year, $90 million deal, while Buck was for five years and $75 million. Levy has been a good soldier throughout his MNF experience, though he wasn’t put in the best position to succeed.ĭuring his first year, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, games were played with no fans in the stands and no in-person meetings with his booth partners, Riddick and Brian Griese. He was coming off a reported nine-year contract in the mid-$30 million range with ESPN and a separate contract with ABC.ĮSPN has been looking to cut expenses, so he did not come anywhere near Buck’s $15 million per year deal.Īt the end, ESPN added responsibilities to sweeten the pot a little. With the start of ESPN’s new NFL TV agreement, there will be a total of five extra games Buck and Aikman won’t do, including an international one.įowler recently signed a new deal with ESPN. The analysts last year with Levy were Louis Riddick and Dan Orlovsky. While the big money duo of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman will remain on the No.

He previously called some NFL games with Herbstreit, which ended when Herbstreit added Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” to his ESPN college responsibilities last season. He will have to quickly develop chemistry with new analysts.įowler calls the top NCAA game each week and the NCAA national championship with Kirk Herbstreit. It is somewhat of an odd move, because Fowler is ESPN’s lead college game-caller and hasn’t stood out when he has done NFL games.

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