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| 2025 | Fox launched a new NFL graphics package during Super Bowl LIX, featuring a flat design aesthetic with separated scoreboard and lower thirds design, utilizing team colors, custom typography, and minimalist graphics. |
| 2025 | Fox begins using digital on-screen graphics for NFL broadcast coverage, marking a new era in their visual presentation of football games. |
| 2025 | The period of digital on-screen graphics implementation is noted to extend through 2025, indicating an ongoing visual redesign for NFL game broadcasts. |
| 2025 | Fox will broadcast Super Bowl LIX as part of the new network rights agreement. |
| February 9 2025 | Super Bowl LIX telecast set a new U.S. television history record with over 126 million viewers, surpassing the previous year's Super Bowl LVIII record of 123.7 million viewers. |
| 2024 | Mark Schlereth replaced Robert Smith on the #6 team with Chris Myers, and Megan Olivi replaced Shannon Spake on the #4 team with Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma. |
| 2024 | Mark Sanchez moved to the #3 pairing with Adam Amin. Mark Schlereth replaced Robert Smith on the #6 team with Chris Myers. |
| 2024 | Megan Olivi replaced Shannon Spake on the #4 team with Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma. |
| 2024 | Fox Sports acquired partial television rights to the United Football League (UFL) following the merger of the XFL and USFL, with plans to air 19 regular season games, one division championship, and the championship game. |
| 2024 | Tom Brady officially joined NFL on Fox as the #1 analyst with Kevin Burkhardt. Greg Olsen moved to the #2 analyst role with Joe Davis. |
| 2024 | Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson conclude their reporting roles on the show. |
| 2023 | Fox continued USFL coverage, airing 18 games including one semifinal, with commentary crews mostly unchanged and Devin Gardner joining as a color commentator for select games. |
| 2023 | Mike Pereira missed the entire season due to injury, leaving Dean Blandino as the sole rules analyst. |
| May 10 2023 | Tom Brady was announced as Fox's lead NFL game analyst, signing a massive contract reported to be worth $375 million, marking a significant addition to their broadcasting team following his retirement from playing. |
| February 2023 | Fox introduced a new NFL graphics package during Super Bowl LVII, modernizing their previous 2020 design. The new package featured a refreshed pod-like scoreboard and maintained illustrated player photos, but was not adopted by Fox's college football coverage. |
| 2022 | Fox broadcast 15 USFL games, including one semifinal and the championship, which averaged 1.8 million viewers. |
| 2022 | Jason Benetti made his NFL on Fox debut in Week 17, calling the Arizona Cardinals–Atlanta Falcons game with Brady Quinn. |
| 2022 | Joe Davis moved to the #2 team, joining Daryl Johnston and Pam Oliver. |
| 2022 | Kristina Pink joined the #3 team with Adam Amin and Mark Schlereth. |
| 2022 | Robert Smith replaced Daryl Johnston on the #5 team with Chris Myers. Shannon Spake replaced Lindsay Czarniak on the #4 team with Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma. |
| 2022 | Fox produced a 13-part documentary series 'United by Football: A Season in the USFL' following USFL players and coaches behind the scenes during the 2022 season. |
| 2022 | Joe Buck and Troy Aikman left Fox to join Monday Night Football. Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen were promoted to the #1 team. |
| 2022 | Rob Gronkowski returns to Fox NFL Sunday as a permanent analyst. |
| 2022 | Sean Payton became an analyst on the show |
| December 2022 | Fox Sports secured a new NFL broadcast rights deal for 2023-2033, reportedly worth $110 billion, maintaining their long-standing NFL broadcasting partnership. |
| November 2022 | Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving game against New York Giants became Fox's most-watched regular-season game ever, drawing 42 million viewers and overtaking the previous U.S. television NFL regular season game viewership record. |
| May 10 2022 | Fox announced that Tom Brady would join the #1 team upon his retirement from playing. |
| April 16 2022 | Fox and NBC simulcast the USFL opening game, marking the first football game simulcast across two major American broadcast networks since the 2007 New England Patriots–New York Giants game. |
| 2021 | Mark Sanchez was hired and paired with Kevin Kugler. Gus Johnson and Aqib Talib were added to the broadcast team. |
| 2021 | Fox expanded its coverage of The Spring League to include every game across Fox, FS1, and FS2. The network aired 7 games, including the championship. The broadcast team included play-by-play announcers Kevin Kugler, Brandon Gaudin, Alex Faust, and Noah Eagle, and color commentators Joel Klatt, Brock Huard, Mark Helfrich, Petros Papadakis, and Jordan Palmer. The championship game attracted an average of 418,000 viewers on Fox. |
| 2021 | The #1 team added Tom Rinaldi as a second sideline reporter. Greg Olsen joined the #2 team as an analyst, replacing Daryl Johnston. |
| June 2021 | Fox became a minority owner in the United States Football League (USFL), a spiritual successor to The Spring League. |
| March 18 2021 | NFL and Fox announce a new broadcasting rights deal extending through the 2033 season, maintaining Fox's NFC package and establishing a Super Bowl rotation. |
| 2020 | Tony Gonzalez ends his tenure as an analyst |
| 2020 | Curt Menefee and Joel Klatt served as Fox's lead XFL broadcast team, with Greg Olsen and Kevin Burkhardt forming the second broadcast team. Brock Huard and Jenny Taft were sideline reporters. |
| 2020 | Charles Davis departed for CBS, with Daryl Johnston filling his position on the #2 team with Kevin Burkhardt. Johnston was replaced by Brock Huard and Greg Jennings on the #5 team. |
| 2020 | Fox Sports announced an agreement to televise The Spring League, with the potential to acquire a future minority equity stake. Fox Sports 1 aired all 8 games of the Fall season, including the championship game, with Alex Faust and Jordan Palmer as lead broadcasters and Joel Klatt providing color commentary. |
| 2020 | Fox discontinues the use of the NFL theme music on non-football broadcasts, moving away from the previous standardization of its sports theme music. |
| 2020 | Dick Stockton retired following the season. |
| 2020 | Fox dropped Thom Brennaman following a controversy surrounding his use of a homophobic slur. Kevin Kugler took over Brennaman's slot on the #6 team with Chris Spielman. |
| 2020 | Chris Spielman left Fox after Week 14 to join the Detroit Lions front office. Brock Huard took over Spielman's place with Kevin Kugler. |
| March 12 2020 | The XFL announced the cancellation of the remainder of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. |
| February 2020 | Fox introduced a new on-air graphics package during Super Bowl LIV, featuring gradient-shaded rhomboid graphics, a pod-like scoreboard with team logos, translucent player statistics strips, and stylized 'comic book' player illustrations. |
| 2019 | Rob Riggle concludes his prognostication segment |
| 2019 | Fox Sports completed a comprehensive redesign of their NFL broadcast graphics, likely further enhancing the visual display of game data and team information. |
| 2019 | Fox Sports reached an agreement with the XFL to air 21 games during the 2020 XFL season, including one semifinal game, with two games scheduled for Thursday night primetime windows on Fox. |
| 2019 | Rob Gronkowski first appears as an analyst on Fox NFL Sunday. |
| October 2019 | Fox auditioned Greg Olsen for the second XFL broadcast team by having him call an NFL game during his bye week from the Carolina Panthers. |
| 2018 | Charissa Thompson joins the show as a reporter. |
| February 2018 | Fox expanded the upgraded graphics package to NASCAR broadcasts. |
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