“I wasn’t happy, but I knew it well in advance,” Al Michaels said of his departure from NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” which was not by choice. “I didn’t want to retire. I still loved doing it. I felt as energized as ever.”
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“I think Amazon wanted to prove that we’re playing with the big boys,” said Michaels. “They want to make it classy. We have to have a comfort level for the fans who want to watch the game and not go astray.” “There might be people coming to Amazon who are skeptical as to what the experience will be,” said Patrick Rishe, director of the Olin’s Sports Business Program at Washington University in St. Louis. “Michaels adds an extra degree of gravitas. It’s a name people trust.”
But throughout his career, Michaels has learned to swim with the tide. He called a total of 60 minutes of hockey before he was assigned to the sport during ABC’s coverage of the 1980 Winter Olympics. He went on to deliver the play-by-play for the U.S. hockey team’s gold medal win over the Soviet Union — an unfathomable upset — and sealed it with the line “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” The coda secured his place in TV sports history.
There were times when Michaels was called on to handle breaking news stories. He became a natural disaster reporter, relaying on-site details from San Francisco’s Candlestick Park when theIn June 1994, he weighed in alongside ABC News journalists when O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings were in Simpson’s white Bronco being chased by police .
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