Charissa Thompson shares feelings about Fox as…
Charissa Thompson despatched a love letter to Fox Sports as the veteran host revealed her contract expired after the 2024 NFL season.
During a current installment of the “Calm Down” podcast, Thompson gushed over her longtime employer whereas explaining that Fox gave her household the VIP therapy on the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Feb. 9.
“I just have to say one thing — and this is also what I am going on and on about Fox, and I swear, I mean it’s not just because my contract’s up — I love Fox so much because my brother and my dad came to the Super Bowl, and Fox is family to me, so my own family like sharing in those moments,” Thompson advised her co-host and fellow Fox Sports sideline reporter Erin Andrews.
Charissa Thompson mentioned her contract with Fox Sports is up after masking Super Bowl 2025 during an episode of her and Erin Andrews’ “Calm Down” podcast. YouTube/Calm Down
“It was so fun, and Fox just makes them feel so welcome and makes sure they’re included in the events and everything. So I just would be remiss if I didn’t mention how wonderful my extended work family is to my own family.”
Thompson and Andrews, who’re best pals outdoors of work, lined Super Bowl 2025, which aired on Fox.
Charissa Thompson and Erin Andrews masking Super Bowl 2025 for Fox in New Orleans. Instagram/Charissa Thompson
The pair usually talk about on their “Calm Down” podcast how close they’re with their Fox co-workers and how it’s a household surroundings.
Andrews beforehand shared that her contract can be up this offseason.
Thompson, 42, hosts the “Fox NFL Kickoff” show, along with a quantity of NFL Films spots for Fox.
Charissa Thompson on the Fox broadcast of Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome on February 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup for FOX/Shutterstock
She additionally hosts Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” pregame show.
In 2023, Thompson confronted criticism for saying she “made up a report” whereas working as a sideline reporter early in her profession.
She later addressed her feedback, which she made during an look on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take” podcast, in a be aware posted to her Instagram.
Charissa Thompson seems on from the set of the TNF on Prime pregame show previous to the sport between the Seattle Seahawks and the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on December 26, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Getty Images
“In the absence of a coach providing any information that could further my report I would use information that I learned and saw during the first half to create my report,” Thompson wrote partly earlier than offering an instance.
“If a team was 0 for 7 on 3rd down, that would clearly be an area they need to improve in the second half. In these instances I never attributed anything I said to a player or coach,” she wrote.
A spokesperson for Amazon’s NFL on Prime Video, as effectively as Fox Sports, declined to touch upon the subject, in response to The Athletic.
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