Brady to join Fox Sports

American football: Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as its lead analyst when the seventimes Super Bowl champion’s National Football League career ends, the network said yesterday.

The longterm agreement has Brady (44) calling games with playbyplay announcer Kevin Burkhardt and serving as an ambassador for the network, particularly with respect to client and promotional initiatives, the network said in a tweet.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed and Fox Sports did not immediately reply when asked to confirm a New York Post report that Brady agreed to a 10year contract worth $US375 million ($NZ590 million). — Reuters