One of the beauties of The Clicker is space for more. On Thursday, I wrote a long feature on the universally liked Fox Sports broadcaster Kevin Burkhardt for the paper. I focused on his Bloomfield, N.J. roots and his sense of awe about calling the Super Bowl in February, but I didn’t fully get into everything, so let’s go over some interesting stuff from Burkhardt about the business that didn’t make the story.
Tom Brady
When the current Buccaneers QB goes into broadcasting, Burkhardt will be the most important person to Brady’s success, after Brady.
In May, when Fox announced during an 8 a.m. ET earnings call that Brady would be its future NFL lead game analyst, Burkhardt, who lives on the West Coast, woke up to his phone being on fire.