Rob Gronkowski has been a member of the FOX Sports broadcasting team for several years, contributing to its coverage of the National Football League throughout the season across studio programming. Gronkowski, a former NFL tight end who won four Super Bowl championships across time with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, famously teamed with quarterback Tom Brady to form one of the most dynamic duos in the history of the sport.
Brady is joining FOX Sports this upcoming season to begin the first season of a contract that is reportedly worth $375 million over 10 years to serve as the lead color commentator within NFL on FOX broadcasts. He will work alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt, sideline reporters Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi and rules analyst Mike Pereira.
During an appearance on the new edition of Good Morning Football Friday morning on NFL Network, host Jamie Erdahl asked Gronkowski how his former teammate would perform in the broadcasting booth. Brady and Gronkowski spent 11 NFL seasons together, collaborating on 93 touchdowns over 141 games.
“I think Tom Brady is going to absolute dominate in the booth,” Gronkowski said. “He’ll definitely have his ups and downs. Of course, anyone entering a new gig in life, you’re going to have to have some lessons that you’re going to have to learn, but overall, I think he’s going to be very successful.”
Brady has been practicing color commentating throughout the year with Burkhardt and has had numerous conversations with industry luminaries to receive advice on how to approach his new job working in sports media. The Week 1 matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns on Sunday, Sep. 8 at 4:25 p.m. EST will be Brady’s broadcasting debut. FOX Sports will broadcast Super Bowl LIX from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La. to close the 2024 season, marking Brady’s first appearance as a commentator on the league’s championship game.
“The advice I would give him is don’t overthink and just be yourself,” Gronkowski said. “Go out there and share that gift that he was born with, and that gift is the knowledge of football that he has, and he has the most knowledge for the game of football that any ex, any former player out there, so just go out and share that knowledge with the world, and he will absolutely dominate.”
Over the last two seasons, Greg Olsen has been the color commentator in the lead NFL on FOX broadcast booth, working alongside Burkhardt, Andrews and Rinaldi across the regular season and postseason. As part of changes to the broadcast teams this season, Olsen is expected to begin working with play-by-play announcer Joe Davis and sideline reporter Joe Davis on the network’s second team. In the years preceding his role with FOX Sports, Brady has co-hosted the Let’s Go! podcast on SiriusXM alongside Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray.
“I would never put anything past him, and he has all this time to prepare, and when he has time to prepare, he will always be on his A game,” Gronkowski said of Brady, “so Tom Brady’s going to dominate, and I can’t wait for it.”
