FOX Sports spent part of Sunday dealing with a broadcast mess that had viewers across the Midwest doing a double take.
The network went into Week 2 of the 2026 season with its announced pecking order already set, with Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady on the top games and Joe Davis and Greg Olsen on the next tier. But during the early slate, the audio didn’t line up with the games people were actually watching.
Fans tuned in for Packers-Jets and heard Joe Davis calling Bears-Vikings instead of Kenny Albert’s actual broadcast. The same wrong audio then carried over into Falcons-Panthers, turning two separate games into one confusing mess.
Packers reporter Jason Wilde even asked publicly whether he was the only one hearing Vikings-Bears audio during the Jets game.
The reaction online was immediate and brutal, with fans piling on and calling it one of the sloppier broadcast errors they could remember.
“Oh good I’m not having a stroke!” one fan wrote.
“Yeah. It’s really irritating,” another said.
“And the amazing thing is… its not even being fixed,” a third fan pointed out.
“Somebody’s getting fired,” a fourth fan declared.
The problems didn’t stop there. FOX’s scorebug also vanished briefly during overtime of Packers-Jets, piling more frustration onto an already rough afternoon for the production crew.
Meanwhile, the actual action in Minnesota was unfolding with the wrong voices attached to it, including Caleb Williams’ third-down escape from a Vikings defender who was left grasping at air.
FOX got the audio sorted out before its primetime window, where Burkhardt and Brady were back on the Cowboys-Commanders game as planned. That broadcast had its own awkward moment, too, after Brady let an unfiltered comment slip on air during a big sequence.
FOX has not said what caused the earlier mix-up.
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