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Unexpected breakout stars are the apparent storyline for Sunday's NFC championship game. Jalen Hurts, 24, of the Philadelphia Eagles, started the season with doubts about his talent, only to emerge as an MVP candidate whom his head coach now compares to none other than Michael Jordan.
There's Brock Purdy, 23, of the San Francisco 49ers, who was a third-stringer after being the final choice in the 2022 NFL Draft and is now going for his eighth straight victory as a starter.
And then there's... Greg Olsen, 37, is a former, largely small-market tight end who became Fox's primary game commentator last year after a major shake-up in the NFL broadcasting ranks and has quickly become a fan and critic favorite for his intelligent and easygoing demeanor.
Yes, Olsen will be in the booth at Lincoln Financial Stadium, chronicling the actions of two professionally related individuals, each of whom was given a dream job despite the fact that no one was completely sold on their ability to accomplish it, only to outperform everyone's wildest expectations.
Olsen, like Hurts (53rd overall selection in 2020) and Purdy (262nd overall pick in 2022), was not the top option at his position. Of course, Brady was once in the Hurts/Purdy/Olsen slot. He was the 199th overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, and he arrived in New England as a fourth-string quarterback with little chance of beating out highly paid veteran Drew Bledsoe.
Brady, though, never looked back after being given his shot due to a Bledsoe injury. Now he's the big-name, big-money man who may get in the way of the guy who took his professional chance in the same way.
Yet there's absolutely no way Fox could pay Brady that much and not have him broadcast the week's biggest game. Olsen will most likely play in a lower-scoring game on Sunday and none in the highly publicized postseason. Fox might also try a possibly packed three-person booth.
Brady was slated to play until the 2022 season before retiring at the age of 45. There was even talk that he'd be calling games by now (Tampa Bay's season ended in the wild-card round) and surely by next month's Super Bowl, which Fox will cover.
Brady, on the other hand, has not decided if he will return for another season. Fox has stated that he will not be used in this Super Bowl, and the game will be called by the Burkhardt-Olsen duo.
Still, an unpleasant inevitability hangs about. Brady is the preferred option. "Throughout the length of this long-term engagement, Tom will not only call our biggest NFL games alongside Kevin Burkhardt, but will also act as an ambassador for us, particularly with respect to client and promotional initiatives," Fox said in May.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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