LA Rams coach Sean McVay rejects stunning $140m Amazon payday

He’s just won a Super Bowl but LA Rams head coach Sean McVay isn’t ready to cash in just yet despite a monster offer.

Sean McVay will be back next season. Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images/AFP

Super Bowl winning coach Sean McVay will not be leaving the LA Rams.

The 36-year-old mentor became the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl and had reportedly been noncommittal about continuing to coach next season, having said he wouldn’t expect to still be leading a team at the age of 60.

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“I know I love football and I’m so invested in this thing and I’m in the moment right now,” McVay said before the Super Bowl win. “But at some point, too, if you said, what do you want to be able to do? I want to be able to have a family, and I want to be able to spend time with them.”

And there were no shortage of suitors.

Amazon Prime Video were planning on meeting next week with the Los Angeles head coach about him becoming an NFL TV game analyst, and sources felt the platform might go as high as offering five years and $US100 million ($A138.4m) for its exclusive Thursday Night Football package in the fall.

Sean McVay has spurned a $140m payday. Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP

But McVay has said no, presumably with a big raise from the Rams in hand. The Super Bowl winning coach was making a reported $8.5 million per season.

On Friday night, ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted that he was told by McVay that he “is not pursuing any television opportunities, and he is committed to helping the Rams defend their Super Bowl title.”

The television opportunities were pursuing McVay.

McVay had interest from Amazon and Fox. With Amazon, McVay could have potentially teamed with Al Michaels, who is close to becoming Amazon’s lead play-by-player on its “Thursday Night Football” telecasts.

Michaels has wanted to know who his analysts would be, but now Troy Aikman, John Lynch and McVay have all said no.

Aikman left for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” for $90-plus million over five. Aikman could be followed by his longtime Fox partner, Joe Buck. ESPN wants to reunite the duo, while Fox hopes to keep Buck.

If ESPN doesn’t land Buck, it likely will turn its attention to Michaels as Aikman’s potential partner.

This story first appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission.