The Tom Brady-Greg Olsen drama (if you can call it that) took another juicy turn this week.
You may recall Brady coming in out of nowhere and stealing Olsen's job from him, basically because he's Tom Brady and Greg Olsen is not. Olsen was demoted to Fox Sport's 2nd booth, with Brady taking over alongside Kevin Burkhardt just in time for Fox's turn broadcasting the Super Bowl. Remember? There were a bunch of extremely cringey commercials about how nobody believed in Brady for the 35th consecutive year?
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As it turns out, he was kinda right. There's at least one group of people that made it very publicly known that they don't believe in him: the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The list of Sports Emmy nomination dropped this week, and it was Olsen – not Brady – who was Fox Sports' representation in the Outstanding Personality/Event Analyst category. Pro Football talk wrote a bit about that earlier this week.
Greg Olsen, not Tom Brady, is Fox Sport's Emmy-nominated announcer
"In his final two years as Fox’s No. 1 NFL game analyst, Greg Olsen won the Emmy for Outstanding Personality/Event Analyst. In his first year as Fox’s No. 2 NFL game analyst, Olsen could make it three in a row. He’s been nominated again, for the fourth straight time. In contrast, Fox’s new No. 1 NFL game analyst has not been nominated."
Tom, I'm now specifically talking to you: No one believes in you. The Academy wants to see you fail; they hate winners. You've just got to call up Alex Guerrero, get back in the TB12 lab, and grind even harder. There's nothing that more plyometrics can't solve. This is nothing more than just a minor setback in a major comeback.
All that being said, this probably doesn't come as much of a surprise to anyone, right? Brady's pretty clearly not at Olsen's level yet, and may never get there. Olsen's a natural, and I imagine he'll rack up a few more Emmy wins before Brady's ever nominated. But! More importantly, this could be the start of Brady's next great rivalry.
Every era of his life has featured an all-time great rival (and Eli Manning), so what's stopping Fox from leaning in and manufacturing some juicy Olsen-Brady content? That's not toxic at all! This is all entertainment, after all.