Awful Announcing
"Now I guess they're allowing me to come in the front door [discussing sports betting on TV], which is not as much fun as kind of doing it subtly."
Hard to beat a cameo from Al Michaels, who worked in a great story about Bob Costas and Howard Cosell.
Amazon clearly wants to be taken seriously with their NFL venture, and they likely view Michaels as a quick path to legitimacy.
"Al, I couldn't have done it. I couldn't have done what Philadelphia did."
Tampa Bay was 22-for-22 in goal-to-go touchdowns, while New Orleans had allowed touchdowns in all 13 goal-to-go situations they had faced. Both of those stats changed after Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth discussed them.
"We're going to get lollipops at the end of the game tonight," said Michaels during the broadcast.
Artificial crowd noise, Michelle Tafoya on a "moat", and more changes prompted by Covid-19.
This was never going to happen, right?
Each of the three networks is showing a new special, and NHLN (six times) and ESPN (once) are also re-airing 2004's Miracle. And there's a lot more coverage on the way as well.
The latest NFL 100 throwback came from NBC's announcers.
The NFL is back, but Cris Collinsworth's slide is not.
If you’ve watched Sunday Night Football, you know the opening tends to be a close-up on Al Michaels setting...
"56.5 is a number that a lot of the fans are thinking about right now."
