On Friday, it was reported that Joe Buck will be leaving Fox to join ESPN as the new voice of “Monday Night Football.” He will be joining his former Fox partner Troy Aikman, who agreed to a deal with ESPN earlier this year.
But while Aikman’s contract was up, and he was free to sign elsewhere, Buck’s wasn’t. Buck had one-year and around $10 million remaining on his Fox deal, according to the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand. Therefore Fox had to let Buck out of his deal, which they did.
But Fox is still getting something back in return. Marchand reports Fox will get to select one Big Ten game ahead of ESPN for next fall as part of the compensation. Both ESPN and Fox share the rights to Big Ten football, and utilized a draft system to divvy up the broadcasts.
