The best TV crews in the NFL – ranked!
by Oliver Connolly from US news | The Guardian on (#5T3N8)
Tony Romo may have re-upped with CBS for a reported $17m annually, but Fox remains the class of NFL broadcasts in the US
It has long been understood that no single viewer tunes in to watch the broadcasters of a game. Viewers tune in for, well, the game. The pieces around that - the announcer, the play-by-play analyst, the sideline reporter - are interchangeable parts.
When Tony Romo was set to hit broadcasting free agency, the reports about his proposed salary became a point of public contention, even among active players. Sure, Romo might be the best in the business right now, but is he really that much more valuable than the average analyst or the second person on CBS' bench?
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