He made a promise. If my wife made me a promise to quit work, because she works too much, and broke the promise, it might be the end of the marriage.
It isn’t as though they need the money and he had a job waiting for him as a commentator, so it’s not like he was leaping into nothing. He just didn’t consider the marriage as important as his love of football.
You seem to have a lower level of commitment to your marriage than most people have to their pets!
OR
one could do as the Bible instructs us and make no promises - just let you yes be YES and no be NO.