Cris Collinsworth talks to Kay Adams on the end of the Collinsworth Slide
"So what do you do? Do you do it just for effect? I don't know, I don't know what I'm going to do."
"So what do you do? Do you do it just for effect? I don't know, I don't know what I'm going to do."
"I really think he sort of thought he was doing me a favor."
"Heaven forbid I criticize a guy who made one bad throw in the Super Bowl."
"[Game] broadcasting, to me, is kind of like playing the game. Which is a lot of fun."
If this is indeed the last Super Bowl for Al Michaels, he went out on top.
"Have you seen a guy, and in particular this year, be more honest about everything?" Umm...
Clark returned to the desk with his own foot joke, too.
"I would sort of do the play-by-play and John would be the caller, but it would be much more of a conversation about football than, like, a traditional broadcast."
The contestants did well on sports questions overall, but didn't have an answer for the NBC Sunday Night Football announcer. Collinsworth responded on Twitter.
"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.
"He told us this week all he ever wanted to do was just take care of her and buy her a house. Apparently I said that in some very mangled way and I apologize for that."
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“[Broadcasting] seemed like a good go-between, a way to make a little money while I was finishing school. But somehow, I’m still doing it.’’
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Al Michaels responded with "Third and five, and that's on you. ...You've eclipsed Coach Madden with that one. That's Hall of Fame."