Via Front Office Sports:
The network has made no official announcements about changes to the announcing team of McFarland, Joe Tessitore, and sideline reporter Lisa Salters. ESPN declined to comment about possible turnover in the broadcast booth.
At the top of the list are football analysts Louis Riddick and Dan Orlovsky, “SportsCenter” anchor-turned announcer Steve Levy, and former punter and fast-rising media personality Pat McAfee. Like nearly every company, ESPN and parent Disney have been hurt financially by the pandemic.
The Walt Disney Company has ordered execs from the vice-president level on up to absorb pay cuts of 20% to 30%, while ESPN has asked its top 100 highest paid on-air talents to accept 15% pay cuts for three months. Throwing money at an outsider might not go over well internally at Bristol.
“When you’re asking your top 100 people to take a haircut, how can you go out and pay Kurt Warner $5 million?” asked one source. “That would be a very tough sell.”
McAfee posted this after ESPN offered Brees an absurd amount of money:
https://t.co/XiVgNF3djo pic.twitter.com/k03dWgAKKk
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) March 29, 2020
Good luck.
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