{"id":762507,"date":"2026-07-14T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762507\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:22:11","slug":"jon-gruden-wants-to-become-a-play-by-play-announcer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762507\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Gruden wants to become a play-by-play announcer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between his stints with the Buccaneers and a second run as Raiders coach, Jon Gruden served as the analyst on Monday Night Football for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>Gruden now wants to return to the booth, in a very different role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a broadcaster for nine years; hell\u2019s bells,\u201d Gruden said on The Ira Kaufman Podcast, via JoeBucsFan.com. \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/07\/jon-gruden-wants-a-play-by-play-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I want to be play-by-play<\/a>. You know, Frank Gifford, he transitioned into the play-by-play role. I would like to transition. I had nine years of watching these guys \u2014 [Mike] Tirico. And I\u2019d like to give that a shot, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would be great to hear Gruden in any capacity, as long as he removes the restrictor plate that kept him from being as good as he could have been as a take-no-prisoners flamethrower. But he didn\u2019t want to burn any bridges, because he planned to go back to coaching at some point. As a result, we never got to enjoy the full Chucky experience.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it could be difficult for Gruden to get a shot with any of the NFL\u2019s current broadcast partners. His tiger-by-the-tail lawsuit against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell would complicate any such efforts, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s find out if he\u2019s got the chops. Someone should hire him for a low-level college game and see what he can do. Good, bad, or ugly, it would definitely generate more viewers than the telecast would otherwise attract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between his stints with the Buccaneers and a second run as Raiders coach, Jon Gruden served as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-762507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}