NBC removes Al Michaels from NFL playoff coverage, per report

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

NBC is reportedly parting ways with legendary broadcaster Al Michaels ahead of the NFL playoffs.

The 79-year-old was unaware that his role was in jeopardy last month, Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reported Tuesday.

Michaels reportedly said he believed that he was still going to call the game on NBC, but did not know who else would be working.

“It’s in my deal,” he said when Marchand mentioned NBC’s uncertainty in November. “Where are you hearing that from? That’s part of my deal. Are you hearing something that I’m not hearing?”

Michaels is heralded as one of the greatest play-by-play announcers in football’s history. After working for ABC from 1976-2006, he joined NBC as the voice of “Sunday Night Football.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/nbc-removes-al-michaels-from-nfl-playoff-coverage-per-report-171645525.html

[czarjak]

1. Adios, Mofo.

[odins folly]

2. I didn't mind Al

I just wish they would unload that perinial taint licking knob gobbler Collinsworth. He gives nothing to the broadcast except over the top praise for has been players...

[calguy]

4. He hasn't been calling games with Collingsworth the past two seasons

He's working for Amazon on their Thursday night games.

[Cheezoholic]

6. I'll take Collinsworth over a punch drunk Aikman or a high school idiot like Romo any day

Al's been slipping this year that was pretty obvious, but they should've let him finish the year out IMO. Herbstreit and Collinsworth are about the only play by play guys left that dissect the game at a granular level for those in it for the game itself and that don't sound like drunk Patriot fans annoying the shit out of you at the bar.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. I'll take him over Beavis and Butthead

I mean Troy Aikman and Job Buck any day.

[rubbersole]

7. 👍

👅🦃...don't hold back.

[Dulcinea]

17. Al's not bad.

Gus Johnson, however, sucks out loud. In fact, most of the Fox announcers suck out loud.

[calguy]

3. Not surprising,

when he's been calling the games on Amazon's Thursday Night Football the past two seasons.

[RockRaven]

5. When I've watched the games he's called the last couple of years, he

seems rather disinterested in actually doing the play by play which is supposed to be his job. I know the games often stink, but he's got the lowest rate of following the on-field action of any of the major announcing guys. Way too much talk about how he's been socializing with this or that owner/executive/former player, or gossipy shit about players/teams not involved in the game he's supposed to be narrating.

And when he does bother to do the play by play, he doesn't know the players' names -- outside of the star players -- at a rate which is unusually high relative to his past self and current co-workers.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

8. The story immediately below this one

on yahoo says "the Patriots" are ditching Belichick which I do not believe for a milisecond.

Probably the same crew who claimed Stefon Diggs wants out of Buffalo. These lameos are pathetic.

[Dulcinea]

18. Probably the same people who think the Steelers are going to fire Tomlin.

The chances of that are slim & none.

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Bye-bye Al!

I won't miss you a bit!

[MOMFUDSKI]

10. Michaels had a fabulous voice. And I think

Romo does a great job. Romo has no voice but I find him informative. This from a 76 yr old woman who didn’t find football until my forties. Don’t know the fine points but love watching.

[twodogsbarking]

11. Thursday Night FB sucks on Prime. Al Michaels needs to hang it up.

[Auggie]

12. I've liked Michaels though the years, though in listening to some of these newer guys ...

realize Al played it a tad too safe and banal. I can understand the change, though to do it on Week 14 and behind Michael's back is pretty damn low.

[LisaM]

14. Never liked Al Michaels since he criticized Bill Clinton during a game.

Dan Dierdorf actually called him out on it.

Good broadcasters are fading away. I kind of blame fantasy sports and Vegas. The announcers pander to listeners who care more about individual stats and records than the atmosphere of the game being played right in front of their eyes.

[Bundbuster]

15. Michaels in 2003: "I'm a proud supporter of George W. Bush."

For all the $millions he made over all those years, he couldn't spring for a new set of dentures. I finally muted his games when my brain melted after listening to him hissing and hissing.

[Mysterian]

16. Good....Rush Limbaugh's good buddy

Can't stand him.