A confluence of John Madden, Tony Romo, Amazon and the billions of dollars networks have shelled out for rights to the NFL games have made talking about the games in most cases more profitable than actually playing in them.
A league that can’t stop making personnel moves this offseason with major players changing teams has been mirrored by movement in the broadcast booths — and for huge money.
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman jumped from Fox to ESPN for Monday Night Football, with Buck getting $75 million over five years (the same George Kittle makes for the 49ers) and Aikman a little north of that.
