Top Ten Sports Media Stories of 2022
We take a look back at the biggest sports media stories of 2022.
We take a look back at the biggest sports media stories of 2022.
The year 2022 was a memorable one in the sports media. We saw comings and goings like never...
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"Prior to that moment, I don't know that I ever really felt victories. I never felt even small victories in broadcasting, but since then I have."
"My comments were dumb. Just shouldn’t have made them, just dumb remarks on my part"
"My hope is the [NFL] Competition Committee looks at this in the next set of meetings, and you know, we take the dresses off."
The blunder came just three weeks after Aikman praised ESPN’s professionalism while referring to his former employer, Fox as a "mom-and-pop type operation."
"On the one hand, we say 'It doesn't matter who's calling the game, everybody's just watching for the action.' But if that is the case, you're not spending that kind of money."
"I don't envy him."
"...if somebody asks you to come on TV, come on TV. Don't be a putz."
"Nobody has to feel at fault for feeling a certain way or taking a stand. Just communicate that."
"You know, I'm 53 years old, I don't really want to go through the getting-to-know-you process with somebody else."
No one could have elevated a meaningless blowout preseason game, but Buck and Aikman would have made it more watchable.
"When somebody makes more money, that's helping out everybody else."
"They floated that to me before I left and I didn’t think it was completely realistic, I’m still not one hundred percent sure."
"I had convinced myself we were getting Peyton Manning."
"For $375 million, you could have bought some live event rights, which would actually make a significant difference."
Brady will continue to be a prominent figure on NFL Sundays for a very long time.
"Football not only reigns over all sports as a business property. It reigns over all American entertainment"
"The only thing a broadcaster can do is chase people away."
"I guess what’s perplexing to me is that I had no conversation with my boss."
"They didn’t want me to go. They have a Super Bowl this year."
"I got a problem with why there hasn’t been to this point, a Black analyst on a major primetime broadcast."
"When I had to speak to both of those guys separately when they both had officially left, oh God I cried."
Al Michaels closed his tenure on NBC by calling the Super Bowl, Joe Buck said goodbye to Fox by appearing on the Masked Singer.