05-28-2026, 06:24 PM -
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The 47th Sports Emmy stage delivered yet another awkward moment for Fox Sports on Tuesday. While the network’s lead NFL booth belongs to Tom Brady, the hardware actually went to Greg Olson, the man he displaced. The lopsidedness of this had the NFL world wasting no time in weighing in with reactions across social media.
A familiar storyline played out at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where Greg Olson, who’s actually Tom Brady’s No. 2, beat the latter for the Outstanding Personality/Event Analyst award.
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Former NFL Executive Upton Bell kept his take to one sentence. “Greg Olson is much better than Tom Brady,” he posted.
FSU Baseball radio host Eric Luallen echoed the verdict with similar bluntness. “Greg Olsen is far better than Tom Brady. It’s not really close at all.”
Olsen now holds the Outstanding Personality award two years running, with three Sports Emmys overall, and a fourth straight nomination. His first career Sports Emmy was awarded in 2023 in the Outstanding Emerging On-Air Talent category
Brady, who was nominated this year, lost out for the second time since arriving at Fox.
The backstory here is what makes Olsen’s second Emmy even more interesting. Both Olsen and Kevin Burkhardt called Super Bowl 57 on Fox’s No. 1 crew before the network paid Brady $375 million over 10 years to take that seat in 2024.
Olsen was bumped down to the second team, along with Joe Davis, and his salary reportedly dropped from $10 million to $3 million in the process.
Olsen has rarely hidden his frustration over this demotion, even as he has gone out of his way to praise Brady personally.
Speaking to Marty Smith last year, he said this decision caused him a massive ego hit. “In the moment, is your ego hit? Sure,” Olsen said. “When you have a young driver come join Hendrick Motorsports, are you going to be supportive? Of course. Do you want him to beat you in the Coca-Cola 600? Hell no.”
With just two years left on his Fox deal, Olsen has positioned himself as the most coveted broadcast free agent on the horizon. While the top chairs across the industry are largely locked up, this leaves Amazon’s Prime Video Thursday Night Football booth, anchored by Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit, as the most plausible landing spot. That is, if Michaels eventually steps back from his year-to-year deal.
The 47th Sports Emmy stage delivered yet another awkward moment for Fox Sports on Tuesday. While the network’s lead NFL booth belongs to Tom Brady, the hardware actually went to Greg Olson, the man he displaced. The lopsidedness of this had the NFL world wasting no time in weighing in with reactions across social media.
A familiar storyline played out at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where Greg Olson, who’s actually Tom Brady’s No. 2, beat the latter for the Outstanding Personality/Event Analyst award.
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Former NFL Executive Upton Bell kept his take to one sentence. “Greg Olson is much better than Tom Brady,” he posted.
FSU Baseball radio host Eric Luallen echoed the verdict with similar bluntness. “Greg Olsen is far better than Tom Brady. It’s not really close at all.”
Olsen now holds the Outstanding Personality award two years running, with three Sports Emmys overall, and a fourth straight nomination. His first career Sports Emmy was awarded in 2023 in the Outstanding Emerging On-Air Talent category
Brady, who was nominated this year, lost out for the second time since arriving at Fox.
The backstory here is what makes Olsen’s second Emmy even more interesting. Both Olsen and Kevin Burkhardt called Super Bowl 57 on Fox’s No. 1 crew before the network paid Brady $375 million over 10 years to take that seat in 2024.
Olsen was bumped down to the second team, along with Joe Davis, and his salary reportedly dropped from $10 million to $3 million in the process.
Olsen has rarely hidden his frustration over this demotion, even as he has gone out of his way to praise Brady personally.
Speaking to Marty Smith last year, he said this decision caused him a massive ego hit. “In the moment, is your ego hit? Sure,” Olsen said. “When you have a young driver come join Hendrick Motorsports, are you going to be supportive? Of course. Do you want him to beat you in the Coca-Cola 600? Hell no.”
With just two years left on his Fox deal, Olsen has positioned himself as the most coveted broadcast free agent on the horizon. While the top chairs across the industry are largely locked up, this leaves Amazon’s Prime Video Thursday Night Football booth, anchored by Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit, as the most plausible landing spot. That is, if Michaels eventually steps back from his year-to-year deal.
