Al Michaels
Al Michaels
Alan Richard "Al" Michaelsis an American television sportscaster...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth12 November 1944
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.
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The questions keep coming from different angles. All I will tell you is next season starts on Monday. Right now, we're just thinking about the Super Bowl.
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With his wealth of experience, and the knowledge he's obviously accumulated through the years, Emmitt Smith would be a much smarter runner at this point of his career.
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
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We'll know in the fourth quarter that it's been 555 times 4.
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I did the 1972 Sapporo Games, and I was also the Reds announcer and was folded into the NBC coverage for the 1972 World Series. I also did the 1979 World Series for ABC.
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Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.
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Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.
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This was as tough a call as I've had to make. It wasn't 80-20, it was 51-49.
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People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.
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I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.
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Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.
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I won't be part of anything that distracts from our telecast. We are preparing to do a game that about 100 mil- lion people will watch. That is all we are doing. Next season starts next week.
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I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'm home and I'm staying home,