ESPN’s Chris Fowler is busy hosting US Open, professional football and college

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September 12, 2020
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ESPN broadcaster Chris Fowler is covering a hat trick of major sporting events on consecutive days and has a word for each: Weird.

58-year-old Fowler will call the US Open women’s final between Naomi Osaka and Victoria Azarenka on Saturday before calling the men’s final on Sunday. Then he’ll call his first ever NFL game – Pittsburgh Steelers to the New York Giants – in a “Monday Night Football” doubleheader.

“It’s a privilege to call those games all in a row,” Fowler told USA TODAY Sports. “Two Grand Slams in a bubble, no crowds, made for the strangest tennis tournament I’ve ever seen, and then you cross the river to an empty NFL stadium where there are a lot of challenges due to (COVID-19). They’ll just be strange and unique circumstances “.

Fowler brings his vast experience in college football, where he was the host for “College GameDay” from 1990 to 2014, on ESPN’s NFL coverage. Was the play-by-play announcer of “Saturday Night Football” S.in 2014, and will be joined by college football colleagues Kirk Herbstreit and Maria Taylor on his NFL debut before returning to college football the following Saturday.

“For months on end, in college football, it was all very abstract,” Fowler said. “Like many fans, it has been difficult to invest emotionally due to all the changes that have taken place from week to week. At a time when unity is so important, you can see that some of the lectures are anything but, and then it’s played publicly. because there is such a passion and not just financial investment, but emotional investment.

“I hold my breath. We still don’t know how much risk has been mitigated. Is it possible to be able to deal with unpredictable results in so many different places?”

Fowler said he feels for athletes from championships like Big Ten and Pac-12, where fall seasons have been postponed.

“The players have done everything they can in the weirdest offseason in the sport,” he said. “For many of them, their future and their identity as people are associated with sport.”

ESPN Executive Vice President of Content Connor Schell said Fowler’s versatility and ability to connect with fans make him the right person to call these events.

“He is at the top of his field not only because his words perfectly document the action, but also because he brings an appropriate context and a timely perspective, which is especially valuable in the current moment,” said Schell.

Fowler said covering the US Open showed how unpredictable things can be right now. He indicated Serena Williams playing best but still loses in the semifinals to Azarenka, and Novak Djokovic was disqualified for inadvertently hitting a line judge in the throat with a ball.

“It’s the butterfly effect,” he said. “I’m proud of the sport of tennis for disqualifying one of its biggest stars. But a little flick of the wrist changed everything in that tournament as he was the favorite. If he had won the previous match and the set, he won the match. , this exploded and the chain of events led to him hitting a woman by the millimeter, then he doesn’t get the number 18 major title and is now falling into the biggest debate of all time.

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