For a lot of budding football players, playing in the NFL is the dream. It's extremely hard to achieve that goal considering there are less than two thousand roster spots available in the entire league.
Dan Orlovsky was one of the people skilled enough to play in the NFL, taking snaps in 26 games from 2005 to 2015.
However, Orlovsky has become more successful in his career after football, turning into one of the top NFL analysts on ESPN as a part of "NFL Live" and a member of the network's second broadcast team.
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He's now chasing a second dream, and it's for position that's even more scarce than playing in the NFL or even becoming a starting quarterback in the league. Orlovsky wants to be part of a lead NFL broadcast booth, and he told Richard Diestch of TheAthletic that he's not going to happy if he's unable to do it.
"I don't think I'd be okay with it," Orlovsky said on the "Sports Media Podcast." "That's something that I want — I'm not afraid to say that. I'm not afraid to go try and chase it down and we'll see what happens with that. But I don't think I'd be okay just passing on that."
Orlovsky joined ESPN in 2018 soon after he retired from the NFL. He explained in the podcast that he wasn't a fixture in the league as a player and didn't have an established following on social media, but he enjoyed breaking down plays and started posting it online before he was discovered.
Just half a decade later, the long-time back-up quarterback has become one of the more indispensable faces for The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) -) sports network. But even with his fast rise, his goal of becoming a color commentator on a network's main broadcast team is going to take some time because there are only five color commentator seats available.
Those are seats are as follows: Greg Olsen on Fox, Troy Aikman on ESPN, Tony Romo on CBS, Cris Collinsworth on NBC, and Kirk Herbstreit on Amazon Prime.
Orlovsky, who just turned 40-years-old, is much younger and has much less experience than any of those names. He said his agents at CAA often have to remind him that "in relation to the landscape," he is still very young and inexperienced.
But Orlovsky is sure that is what he wants to do — and he is determined to work to get there once a position does open up.
"At some point, I want that opportunity and I want to work towards that opportunity. I don't know when it's going to happen," Orlovsky said.
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