News about Al Michaels

During Amazon Prime's Jets-Browns broadcast, Al Michaels sheds unexpected light on the Houston Astros: "I think the Astros must be in town."

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 29, 2023
During Thursday night's Jets-Browns game on Amazon Prime, Al Michaels took a shot at the Houston Astros and the team's cheating fiasco. 'Somebody's pounding on the garbage can.' During the second quarter, Michaels said the Astros must be in town. Throughout the video, the outlawing of garbage can lids can be heard in the background at FirstEnergy Stadium.

After being left out of NBC's NFL playoff coverage for 2022, Al Michaels 'caught off guard by being left off guard.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 12, 2023
The Al Michaels will not watch any of NBC's four NFL playoff games, a change the 79-year-old broadcaster wasn't expecting. Since joining NBC in 2006, Michaels had been part of the network's football postseason coverage. According to the New York Post, the 17-season streak is now over. Michaels, alongside Tony Dungy, declared the Jacksonville Jaguars' victory over the Los Angeles Chargers last year to extend his streak another year.

In the Cowboys' victory over the Seahawks, Al Michaels slammed 19 penalties for 257 yards on a slew of calls: 'We're going to have the night off and left official Clete Blakeman calls the game's.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 1, 2023
On Thursday night football, NFL referee Blakeman and his officiating crew stole the show, leaving veteran play-by-play announcer Al Michaels looking for something else to entertain his time. Following one of 19 fouls in Arlington, Texas, Michaels said, 'We're going to have the rest of the night off and let Clete Blakeman call the game.' 'You buying?'Yes,' replied color commentator Kirk Herbstreit, who was obliviously agreeing to join Michaels for a glass of beer.' The Cowboys' 41-35 victory over the Seattle Seahawks was amusing, but many felt the frequent flags distracted from the game.

Mike McDaniel reveals with detail how he met Katie after Al Michaels told him that'me out to be a d-bag' during the Dolphins' victory over the Jets

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 28, 2023
Mike McDaniel, the Miami Dolphins' head coach, attempted to set the record straight after a tale about him meeting his wife was broadcast on television. Play-by-plan man Al Michaels shared a tale about McDaniel's meeting his now-wife Katie during the Amazon Prime broadcast of the Black Friday game between the Dolphins and Jets. In the now-defunct United Football League, Michaels tells the tale about McDaniel bumping into her at a nightclub when he was the running backs coach of the Sacramento Mountain Lions.

In pregame festivities, NFL will salute late John Madden by tossing a special coin highlighting the beloved announcer's silhouette and his favorite Thanksgiving dish... a six-legged TURDUCKEN

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 23, 2023
On the holiday that he came to identify as a beloved TV analyst, the NFL will honor late John Madden - and his favorite dish. Both six teams competing in Thursday's three games will have patches recognizing Madden, while NFL officials will hold pregame ceremonies with a commemorative coin depicting the former Raiders coach on one side and a six-legged turducken on the other. A turducken is a deboned chicken turned into a deboned duck and then stuffed into a deboned turkey, making it a deboned turkey. Although there is an English version of 'gooducken,' Madden helped popularize the American version from 1979 to 2008, when he finally stepped away from announcing. As he announced Thanksgiving Day games, Madden most commonly awarded turducken to the winning team's top performers.

Sportscaster Al Michaels reveals he wanted to call Taylor Swift Travis Kelce's 'FIANCEE' during the Chiefs' game but was worried the NFL star 'would beat me up'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 17, 2023
Al Michaels was tempted to say Taylor Swift as Travis Kelce's fiancée, as he revealed this week. As the Chiefs defeated the Broncos 19-8 on Thursday Night Football, Michaels was on the call for Prime Minister as the Chiefs defeated the Broncos 19-8. Michaels wasn't quite sure how to refer to it during the game, and his romance with the pair was continuing to develop.

Despite Prime Minister Al Michaels' best not to mention her, Taylor Swift: NFL fans are FUME over Travis Kelce's girlfriend during Broncos vs. Chiefs

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 13, 2023
Despite Al Michael's pledge to maintain coverage of her at least, NFL fans were still upraged by the quality of airtime at Arrowhead on Thursday night. Swift and his mom Donna attended Travis Kelce's return to the Chiefs in Kansas City. The pop sensation ignited a rage when she watched Kelce for the first time at Arrowhead last month before igniting the internet ablaze once more by attending his game at MetLife Stadium in New York City.

Taylor Swift coverage against the Broncos should be kept to a minimum, according to Prime Minister Al Michaels, who was chastised for 'overdoing it' against the Jets

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 12, 2023
When Travis Kelce and the Chiefs face the Broncos tonight, Amazon Prime Broadcaster Al Michaels has assured die-hard NFL followers that coverage of Taylor Swift will be limited to a minimum. Following Kansas City's victory over the New York Jets earlier this month, the NFL was heavily chastised by fans for excessive coverage of Swift during the Kansas City victory over the New York Jets, according to broadcasters NBC, who routinely compared the pop sensation to the pop sensation in MetLife Stadium. And Kelce, the Chiefs actress who has been dating for the past month, admitted that there was too much emphasis on his latest love interest during games. On his New Heights podcast, he said, 'They are overdoing it a bit for sure.'

Amazon Prime's Al Michaels BLASTS critics of his non-enthusiastic announcing style on Thursday Night Football: ''What do you want me to do?'

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 16, 2023
When speaking to Sports Business Journal, legendary sportscaster Al Michaels hit back at critics of his announcing style and a lack of excitement calling games. Michaels, 78, is set to return to 'Thursday Night Football,' with Kirk Herbstreit for Amazon prime.

Al Michaels, Amazon's prime sportscaster, was ecstatic over the NFL Thursday Night show

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 12, 2023
The voice of Amazon Prime's Thursday Night Football, Al Michaels, is ecstatic over the new 2023 season's schedule. This week, the schedule was published this week, following a rough start to the NFL's maiden season, with a schedule of games that rarely managed to get off the ground. But now, the broadcaster hopes that the new schedule would help them increase their coverage this time around.

Amazon Prime Video will broadcast a NFL game for free on Black Friday

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 7, 2023
Amazon revealed Tuesday that Prime Video will broadcast an NFL game on Black Friday for free. The 2023 season will be the first time the league has scheduled a game for the day after Thanksgiving. The teams for the 3 p.m. contest are listed below. A game on Nov. 24 will be confirmed later.

Al Michaels slammed for comments implying Taylor Swift's music is only popular for teenage girls

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 22, 2022
Following his remarks on NFL's Thursday Night Football broadcast, Al Michaels (left) has found himself in the crosshairs of Taylor Swift (right) fans on social media. Following an announcement regarding Swift's latest album, Michaels, who appeared on Amazon, implied that the singer was just popular among teenage girls. 'If you had a daughter, you'd be over the moon,' Michael told Kirk Herbstreit in the booth.

During a Thursday Night Football broadcast, Al Michaels strangely brings up the Dan Snyder saga

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 14, 2022
During Amazon's Thursday Night Football broadcast, longtime NFL broadcaster Al Michaels made the odd, perhaps even bizarre choice to delve into the controversy surrounding Dan Snyder. As the fourth quarter began, Michaels brought up Snyder out of the blue in the wake of another sleep-inducing Thursday game. It came after a tumultuous ESPN survey earlier this week in which Snyder is said to have enough dirt to 'blow up' several NFL owners.

Could Amazon get NBA rights next? Prime Minister Theresa May is 'confident that they will appeal to a younger audience.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 11, 2022
After its early success with Thursday Night Football, the NBA's current US media contracts will come to an end after the 2024-25 season, and Amazon could be a candidate to win the league after its early success with Thursday Night Football. According to Front Office Sports, citing Nielsen results, Thursday Night football viewership has increased 11 percent from the first four games last year (11.3 million viewers). According to Amazon, the company believes it has a chance to win the new NBA rights package, with executives referring to the NBA's huge international audience as 'attractive' to the NBA.