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Author:  Dignified Rube [ Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Al Michaels

For still broadcasting NFL games.

Hard to believe that someone who broadcasted with Madden is still going.

Author:  Chet Coppock's Fur Coat [ Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:19 pm ]
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Someone who broadcast Cincinnati Reds baseball and when he left was replaced by a young Marty Brenneman.

Author:  Drunk Squirrel [ Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:29 pm ]
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38 years of this he said. I'm sure I watched some MNF before he took over but it is fuzzy. I do recall Cosell (Which would of been Gifford as play by play) but I don't know if that was from watching as a little kid or clips..

Author:  IkeSouth [ Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:31 pm ]
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No audio but he has to be having a little fun now. The bears suddenly woke up. They taste blood and dominating lmfao

Author:  HawaiiYou [ Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:32 pm ]
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He’s in the baseball HOF

Author:  Zippy-The-Pinhead [ Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:51 pm ]
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I love that intro to the next game.
Gonzales: (sic) “Broncos Chiefs will be a great game. Russell Wilson looked great in the last game”.
Immediately followed by lady announcer : “Kansas City has won 15 straight games against the Broncos”.

Author:  Beardown [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 12:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Al Michaels

Michaels first year in the NFL was 1986 on MNF.

I know people like to rip him but I still think he's sharp as hell. He's one of the best ever.

Author:  Hawg Ass [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:00 am ]
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Al Michaels fun fact"

He eats a steak every day of his life.

Author:  IkeSouth [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:03 am ]
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Why does he hate the tush push? I think it's awesome

Author:  Hawg Ass [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:11 am ]
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IkeSouth wrote:
Why does he hate the tush push? I think it's awesome

Why does this not surprise me

Author:  Curious Hair [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:07 pm ]
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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Someone who broadcast Cincinnati Reds baseball and when he left was replaced by a young Marty Brenneman.

Has the most famous hockey call of all time and isn't really even a hockey guy.

Author:  Warren Newson [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 8:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Al Michaels

Michaels, Gifford, and Dierdorf is still my favorite Monday Night Football booth. Also, I miss the best matchup of the week being on Monday night as opposed to Sunday night.

Author:  IkeSouth [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 8:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Al Michaels

Isn't that coincidence not intent?

Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 8:13 pm ]
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Dignified Rube wrote:
Hard to believe that someone who broadcasted with Madden is still going.

The entire fox pre and post game crew was there with m
Madden, ya dope.

Author:  IkeSouth [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 8:46 pm ]
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What's crazy is Madden died only 2 years ago

Author:  Jaw Breaker [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 10:50 pm ]
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Hawg Ass wrote:
Al Michaels fun fact"

He eats a steak every day of his life.


He also claims to have never knowingly eaten a vegetable in his life.

Author:  Nardi [ Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:15 pm ]
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Ketchup is a vegetable. Also, Senator Fetterman.

Author:  Caller Bob [ Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:17 am ]
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Does Amazon count as a broadcast?

Author:  a retard [ Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:43 am ]
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IkeSouth wrote:
Isn't that coincidence not intent?


Intent.

The NFL also indicated that it wanted Sunday night to be the new night for its marquee game, because more people tend to watch television on Sundays, and games held on that night would be more conducive to flexible scheduling, a method by which some of the NFL's best games could be moved from the afternoon to the evening on Sunday on short notice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o ... 20to%20the

Author:  IkeSouth [ Sat Oct 07, 2023 8:40 am ]
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That makes sense

Author:  Curious Hair [ Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:24 am ]
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Yeah, Monday Night Football in the early 2000s was not in a good place. Messy production as Disney was cutting ABC Sports down to nothing, and year-to-year uncertainty from the salary cap was creating a lot of bad meaningless games down the stretch.

The real story of the 2006 realignment is that Disney dummied themselves into paying almost as much for the cable game ($1.15 billion) as they had been paying for the cable game and the #1 game combined ($1.1 billion). At $650MM, the NFL practically gave away the new and improved #1 game to NBC.

Author:  Tall Midget [ Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:49 am ]
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Nardi wrote:
Ketchup is a vegetable. Also, Senator Fetterman.


Word on the street is that Dr. Oz only eats his Fettermans if he can refer to them as crudite.

Author:  Nardi [ Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:14 am ]
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Tall Midget wrote:
Nardi wrote:
Ketchup is a vegetable. Also, Senator Fetterman.


Word on the street is that Dr. Oz only eats his Fettermans if he can refer to them as crudite.

Shame he didn't say that when it counted.

Author:  a retard [ Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Al Michaels

Dropped from playoff coverage.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/12/sports/al ... nt-expect/

Quote:
Al Michaels out of NBC’s NFL playoff coverage in move he wasn’t expecting

NBC is set to have three playoff games in January. Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth are scheduled to handle two, while Noah Eagle, Todd Blackledge and Kathryn Teppen will be on the call for one of the doubleheaders early in the month, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

The legendary Al Michaels is out on NBC’s NFL playoff coverage, The Post has learned.

Michaels called last year’s incredible Jaguars comeback win over the Chargers, but he and analyst Tony Dungy were widely panned for a perceived lack of enthusiasm.

Michaels, 79, maybe the greatest NFL TV play-by-player of all time, had a storied run at ABC and NBC calling prime-time football before moving to “Thursday Night Football” on Amazon Prime Video last season.

Next month, NBC has three playoff games. The network’s No. 1 team, Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth from “Sunday Night Football,” will handle two of them, including one that will be exclusive just to the network’s streaming service, Peacock.

When NBC has two games on the first weekend of the playoffs, its No. 1 college team, Noah Eagle and Todd Blackledge, along with sideline reporter Kathryn Tappen will be on the call.

NBC Sports vice president Greg Hughes confirmed the assignments to The Post. Michaels did not return messages.

The move continues a dramatic rise for the 27-year-old Eagle, who will also call the Super Bowl as the play-by-player on Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob” telecast in February.

Michaels’ swap out by NBC has been in the works for a while, though Michaels was apparently caught off guard.

During an early November interview with The Post, Michaels said he believed he was still going to call the game on NBC, but did not know with whom he would be working.

When informed by The Post about it being in limbo, Michaels sounded unaware of the possibility.

“It’s in my deal,” Michaels said. “Where are you hearing that from? That’s part of my deal. Are you hearing something that I’m not hearing?”

There has long been tension between Michaels and top NBC executives — though they have done their best to hide it from public view, even giving Michaels an emeritus title when he was replaced.

There was a failure to truly define what the emeritus role really meant, except for calling the playoff game.

NBC decided to move on from Michaels, even though he longed to stay at the top perch on “Sunday Night Football.” NBC had long promised Tirico the lead role and kept true to its word even after Michaels went out with a tremendous performance for NBC in Super Bowl LVI in February 2022.

During the broadcast shuffle, Michaels had interest in replacing Joe Buck when he left for Fox. Michaels was also ESPN/ABC’s second choice if it failed to land Buck for “Monday Night Football.”

Michaels landed at Amazon Prime Video, where he has called “Thursday Night Football” for the streaming service.

With Michaels not returning for the playoff game, it ends what is arguably the most storied NFL network broadcast play-by-play career of all time.

Michaels and Pat Summerall are tied with 11 Super Bowls called on television.

Michaels still has one more year on his Amazon deal and told The Post in November he plans on returning.

Meanwhile NBC is very high on Eagle and Blackledge following their first season calling the Big Ten. The duo will have NBC’s call of the Steelers and Bengals on Dec. 23.

That day, Tirico and Collinsworth will be in the booth for the Bills and the Chargers that is exclusively on Peacock.

Author:  blackhawksfan [ Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Al Michaels

Why would they drop him? He's broadcasting the worst games on Thursday. Put him in a playoff game and I'm sure he's still great

Author:  This Ends in Antioch [ Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:24 am ]
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blackhawksfan wrote:
Why would they drop him? He's broadcasting the worst games on Thursday. Put him in a playoff game and I'm sure he's still great

He was pure ass in the playoffs last year.

Author:  IkeSouth [ Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:25 am ]
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Why keep him? He's fucking 80. They can't find a 75 year old blow hole?

Author:  Bagels [ Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Al Michaels

is this bc he spoke out of turn about Taylor Swift ?

Author:  IkeSouth [ Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:13 am ]
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I believe it's because he became a meme for being the billy elish of the NFL. he was acting like a depressed teenager and i don't know what company would offer an extension for that behavior.

Author:  This Ends in Antioch [ Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:29 am ]
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He and Dungy were on maybe the most exciting game of the playoffs last year and it sounded like an NPR show.

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