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Joe Buck and Troy Aikman Are Here to Save Monday Night Football. Does the Yellow Blazer Fit?

For years the NFL’s bellwether broadcast has shuffled through talent and on-air teams without nailing it. Enter football TV’s models of consistency, with 20 years together at Fox.

The most high-profile free-agency signing this NFL offseason? It was a package deal. Sort of. It shifted the balance of power among rivals, leaving one roster depleted and the other overhauled. It was as much about emotion—perceptions of respect and disrespect—as it was the staggering financial terms. It involved familiar, long-embedded stars, one age 55, the other 53.

Before—and while—the Rams defeated the Bengals in Super Bowl LVI, the ground was shaking in NFL broadcast circles.