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Andrew Marchand Predicts Drew Brees & Mike Tirico Will Call Super Bowl In 4 Years
“NBC is locked in with Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth as their lead broadcasters for Sunday Night Football and the Super Bowl during the upcoming NFL season, but Mike Tirico and Drew Brees are looming.
Brees officially retired from the NFL and joined NBC as an analyst earlier this month. The network plans to feature him on Football Night in America and alongside Mike Tirico for their coverage of Notre Dame football. But according to Andrew Marchand of The New York Post, the network’s plans are likely mapped out even further.
Joining The Colin Cowherd Podcast on The Volume network, Marchand expressed that it’s reasonable to expect Tirico and Brees will be on the call for NBC’s next Super Bowl telecast in four years.
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Cowherd asked if he should read into whether NBC’s addition of Brees means the network views him as the future of their NFL coverage alongside Tirico. “Yeah, 100 percent that’s what you should read into it,” Marchand said.
“NBC won’t say that, but NBC is doing something smart in terms of you bring Brees in, he does Notre Dame, see if he’s good and then you can elevate him. But I think that can go pretty quickly if he is good because that’s kind of their new team, and then they can work toward that next Super Bowl with Drew Brees and Mike Tirico,” Marchand continued. “I think there’s a very good chance not this Super Bowl, next year NBC has it, but the following one four years from there that Tirico and Drew Brees would be the people.”
Contrasting the notion of Brees being hired with eyes on the Sunday Night Football booth, NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood recently said the network plans to have Collinsworth in that seat for a long time. But “a long time” is vague, and with Michaels contract set to expire next year, change in the booth seems forthcoming.”
Brandon Contes is a former reporter for BSM, now working for Awful Announcing. You can find him on Twitter @BrandonContes or reach him by email at [email protected].
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