ESPN’ REPLACES Steve Levy with Chris Fowler on Monday Night Football No. 2 teams’
ESPN’ Replaces Steve Levy With Chris Fowler On Monday Night Football No. 2 team,” as the network shakes things up for the 2023 season
- Steve Levy has been dropped from the Monday Night Football lineup for 2023
- He was previously replaced by Joe Buck as the first team play-by-play man
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ESPN has decided to change things up on Monday Night Football’s second broadcast team, according to a new report.
Chris Fowler replaces Steve Levy as the play-by-play voice on the No. 2 team, the NY Post said.
Already the main caller of the network’s college football games, Fowler also works as a tennis commentator and host for the network.
Levy was the play-by-play man on the No. 1 team from 2020-21 before the network brought in Joe Buck for that job last season.
Levy then moved into the No. 2 spot, calling games along with Louis Riddick and Dan Orlovsky.
Steve Levy has been with ESPN since 1993 and is also a play-by-play announcer for NHL games
Chris Fowler has previously called NFL games with Kirk Herbstreit and leads ESPN’s college football coverage
Fowler is featured on an episode of ESPN’s ‘College Gameday’ in New York City in 2017
According to the Post, there will be five additional games on Monday that Buck and broadcast partner Troy Aikman will not do, which will fall to Fowler and the second team.
And with Fowler recently signing a new deal with ESPN – which was looking to cut costs – the network added responsibilities to “sweeten the pot a little bit” for him.
Levy has been with the company since 1993 and leads the NHL studio team at the network.
He is also a SportsCenter anchor and was a good sport when he was replaced by Buck last year.
“Yeah, you’re @Buck – getting to work with a great MNF crew,” Levy caption of a photo from Buck’s book ‘Lucky Bastard’.
“I look forward to seeing you in the cafeteria in Bristol. You buy…”