1. He’s out. He’s not out. He’s out.
The Drew Brees–NBC saga is finally over after a murky few weeks.
The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand reported a month ago that Brees would not return to NBC to call Notre Dame football and work on the network’s Sunday Night Football studio show.
Shortly thereafter, Brees sent a bizarre tweet about his up-in-the-air future.
Now, in a new interview with the Associated Press, NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua confirmed that Brees was out at NBC and that “this was definitely a lifestyle choice for [Brees], which is totally understandable.