Erin Andrews cried after Joe Buck and Troy Aikman left for ESPN

Erin Andrews is aware of the media enterprise may be fluid, however she discovered herself tearing up when her NFL broadcast companions Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, left Fox for ESPN’s “Monday Night time Soccer.”

Talking on her iHeart Radio podcast, “Calm Down with Erin and Charissa,” which she co-hosts with Charissa Thompson, Andrews stated she wasn’t anticipating the speedy adjustments and cried when she first heard the information of Buck and Aikman’s departures.

“This all occurred quick,” Andrews stated. “I wasn’t anticipating it. I’ll be fully sincere, I don’t suppose lots of people have been. I’m recognized for being one powerful cookie. I can cope with plenty of issues, I’ve handled plenty of issues, however after I needed to communicate to each of these guys individually after they each had formally left, oh God I cried.

“I don’t suppose they each anticipated that from me. I’ll cry proper now… I instructed each of them I got here to Fox to work with them. I simply thought it could be so cool to do video games with them. You [Charissa] stated it completely, I do know these individuals generally higher than my husband.”

Andrews added how she and her now-former colleagues have spent a myriad of holidays collectively, to not point out the deeply private conversations they’ve shared over time.

“Each Thanksgiving I’m with them. Previous two Christmases I’ve been with them,” Andrews stated. “They’ve listened to my fertility points, they knew about my most cancers points. I’ve listened to them [talk about] their daughters or having their infants and issues like that. It’s simply loopy, they actually turn into your loved ones, and so they at occasions are nearer to you than your precise blood household or husband or something like that.”

Nonetheless, Andrews stated she understood Buck and Aikman’s choices to modify networks and was glad about their alternatives at ESPN.

“I don’t maintain it towards anyone for leaving, look I left ESPN after being there for eight years and got here to Fox,” she stated. “Like I stated on the Pat Summerall Award [dinner], that was top-of-the-line profession strikes I ever made. Numerous that needed to do with, sure my crew, however my relationship with these two. They turned my brothers and so they turned my [real] greatest pals so I’m unhappy however I’m so glad for them.”  

The Publish’s Andrew Marchand reported earlier this month that Andrews’ contract with Fox can also be up. He wrote that Fox wish to preserve her however that an ESPN return was not fully out of the query.

On her podcast, Andrews expressed religion in Fox to determine their prime NFL asserting sales space.

“With the change that’s occurring at Fox, I do think about our community… I do know they’ve clearly been a tremendous community for thus lengthy. It’s simply my problem (laughing), I’m the one that should let s–t go,” she stated.  

Aikman, based on sources, has signed a five-year, $90 million cope with ESPN, whereas Buck has inked a five-year contract value $75 million.