Fox Sports has let go of NFL analyst Mark Sanchez and hired Drew Brees in his place. Sanchez has been off the air since police said he was stabbed during a fight with a truck driver outside an Indianapolis hotel on Oct. 4.

Fox Sports has let go of NFL analyst Mark Sanchez and hired Drew Brees in his place.

“We can confirm that Mark Sanchez is no longer with the network. There will be no further comment at this time,” a Fox Sports spokesman told The Associated Press on Friday.

Sanchez has been off the air since police said he was stabbed during a fight with a truck driver outside an Indianapolis hotel on Oct. 4. He was in Indianapolis for Fox’s coverage of the Oct. 5 game between the Colts and the Las Vegas Raiders. Sanchez faces a felony battery charge, along with several misdemeanor charges, for what prosecutors have said was a fight over parking. Sanchez and Fox Sports also face a civil lawsuit filed by the driver, 69-year-old Perry Tole.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    You have to be quite the special guy to lose a knife fight and still be the one who gets fired. Of course, if you started the fight in the first place in a hazy drunken rage…

    • comador @lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Gets even better:

      Sanchez and Fox Sports also face a civil lawsuit filed by the driver, 69-year-old Perry Tole.

        • A_Wild_Zeus_Chase@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          Pretty common, they’ll say it was because Fox created an “unsafe/unsupervised work environment that allowed the attack to occur, therefore they have partial liability”

          And not knowing the details of the attack, that might be true. But another, perhaps more important reason is that Fox has more money than Mark Sanchez, and naming Fox in the suit allows them to get some of it