Dan Fouts Contract Not Renewed By CBS Sports

CBS drops Dan Fouts as NFL broadcaster after more than a decade

Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts, a fixture as an NFL analyst at CBS for more than decade, will not return in 2020.

A source close to Fouts who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed a report by the New York Post that Fouts’ contract was not renewed by the network.

CBS addressed its top NFL broadcast team of Jim Nantz and Tony Romo by signing Romo to a 10-year, $180 million extension this offseason.

The network is now addressing its No. 2 team. According to multiple reports, CBS is letting go of color commentator Dan Fouts, who has teamed with play-by-play man Ian Eagle for the last several seasons. Fouts, 69, is a pro football Hall of Famer who put together a decorated 15-year career, all with the San Diego Chargers.

After retiring in 1987, Fouts first joined CBS as an analyst. In 2000, he joined ABC’s “Monday Night Football” booth alongside Al Michaels and Dennis Miller. He called college games with Keith Jackson for a time and returned to CBS in 2008.  Fouts, a Hall of Fame quarterback during a 15-year career with the San Diego Chargers, joined CBS for the second time in 2008. He began his broadcasting career with the network in 1988 and spent six years there before leaving to become a local sportscaster in San Francisco. Fouts, who will be 69 in June, then worked at ABC from 1997 through 2007, when his contract was not renewed. His run there included a stint on “Monday Night Football” with Al Michaels and Dennis Miller, as well as college games with Keith Jackson.

Over the last decade, Fouts worked primarily with first Dick Enberg and later Ian Eagle. Fouts and Eagle made up the No. 2 team at CBS for the past six seasons. (The No. 1 team is Jim Nantz and Tony Romo.)

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