Outside of the Super Bowl (like in 2025), the FOX NFL Sunday team almost exclusively shoots on location from the network’s state-of-the-art Los Angeles studio.
This will not be the case for Week 2 of the 2025 NFL Season after it was announced the celebrated team of Curt Menefee, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, and Michael Strahan will be on location in Kansas City for a rematch of Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. The network confirmed the news in a promotional video highlighting the network’s games for the first two weeks of the year.
The crew will be without Jimmie Johnson this season. In March, the 81-year-old confirmed his retirement from television after 31 on-and-off years. In his absence, Gronkowski was elevated to a full-time member of the crew. Meanwhile, NFL fans have recently discovered the eye-watering full cost to stream all games this season.
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Bradshaw, 76, was also the subject of retirement rumors most of last year. He spoke to the Mirror US at press row ahead of the Super Bowl about how long he plans to remain on TV.
“I told my wife before I left the room a while ago, I’m sitting there… I said, ‘I’ve got two years left at FOX. I’m 76,” he revealed. “Okay, so it’s a young man’s game. I get that. Everybody wants the new.”
FOX will likely bring its new FOX NFL Kickoff team, featuring host Charissa Thompson and analysts Charles Woodson, Julian Edelman, Cooper Manning, and Colin Cowherd, to Kansas City.
The FOX team’s headliner will be in the broadcast booth: former quarterback Tom Brady. The seven-time Super Bowl champion is preparing to embark on the second season of his landmark 10-year, $375 million deal with the network.
He recently appeared on the Joel Klatt podcast and spoke about how well he thinks he did in year one. “I thought I was prepared, because I had done a lot of research and I had a year to prepare and a lot of practice games,” Brady admitted.
“But there’s absolutely nothing that I did that could really prepare me for what I was about to endure. And there were a lot of growing pains through the year for me, just in terms of prep and, obviously, going on-air, and there’s things you messed up and there’s things that you make mistakes.”
Brady and play-by-play man Kevin Burkhardt will venture to East Rutherford, NJ, for Week 1 to call a 1 pm ET NFC East divisional showdown between the Washington Commanders and the New York Giants.