(min 15 attempts): 158.3 (9/26/76 vs. St. Louis) Passing touchdowns, playoff game: 3 (twice, tied with Philip Rivers) Passing yards, playoff game: 433 (1/2/82 vs. Miami, also 2nd, 3rd and 4th places with 336 and 333 (twice)) Passing attempts, playoff game: 53 (1/2/82 vs. Miami) Completions, playoff game: 33 (1/2/82 vs. Miami) Interceptions, career: 242 Broadcasting Television While announcing his retirement, Fouts stated his desire to work as a commentator, starting from the upcoming 1988 season. He did an audition tape for CBS, working with Dick Stockton, and officially joined the NFL on CBS team as an analyst in March of that year. Over the course of the next six seasons, he was primarily partnered with Verne Lundquist. CBS were outbid by Fox and lost their NFL coverage rights in 1994. Fouts then switched to the CBS-affiliated KPIX-TV in his hometown of San Francisco, where he worked as the sports director and a sports anchor. In the fall of 1997, Fouts returned to network television as an analyst, this time working college football games for ABC Sports alongside play-by-play man Brent Musburger. In 2000, Fouts moved into a commentary role on ABC's Monday Night Football, alongside MNF anchor Al Michaels and comedian Dennis Miller. He had a three-year contract, but ABC dropped both Fouts and Miller from the show in 2002, after only two seasons. Fouts stayed with ABC, returning to college football and working alongside acclaimed veteran announcer Keith Jackson. After Jackson's retirement from ABC in 2006, Fouts partnered with Tim Brant. ABC declined to renew the contracts of either Fouts or Brant in 2008. It was reported in USA Today later that year that Fouts was returning to CBS for NFL games, where he would work with a variety of play-by-play announcers including Don Criqui, Bill Macatee and Dick Enberg. In 2009, he was moved to partner with Enberg as the number 3 broadcasting team for the NFL on CBS. Ian Eagle replaced Enberg as Fouts' partner the following season, and the new pair remained in the number three slot until 2014, when they were elevated to the number two team behind Jim Nantz and Phil Simms (and later, Tony Romo). Fouts and Eagle were often called "The Bird and the Beard". While with CBS, Fouts also covered Chargers preseason games carried throughout Southern California. In April 2020 it was announced that CBS had parted ways with Fouts.