Super Bowl LVI is likely Al Michaels’s NBC swan song—and his last game on traditional TV. The legendary NFL broadcaster goes deep on his career:
My first one is in San Diego after the 1987 season, the strike year. It's the replacement player year. Washington against Denver. Denver leads ten to nothing at the end of the first quarter. …And at halftime, it's 35 to 10. Doug Williams threw four touchdown passes and Timmy Smith ran wild. And the final score was 42 to 10.
SI: What about as game analysts? Your last two, John Madden and Cris Collinsworth, are obviously at a certain level. What do they do well and why did others struggle?Well, the common denominator is the ability to communicate. To be able to put thoughts into words. Not to be cliché-strewn. [MLB analyst and former catcher] Tim McCarver was the first guy I worked with regularly, and we talked about it a lot: Guys come off the field or off the sidelines as coaches.
In 1980, Michaels had perhaps the most famous call in sports history when he was in the booth for the Miracle on Ice.One of the great Madden stories is that he’s doing a game in Tampa for CBS, and he hates to fly, obviously. So now he’s going to fly home after the game on Monday. His flight is from Tampa to San Francisco with the change of planes in Houston. So they take off and in the middle of the flight, John says, “That’s it, that’s it.” And he vowed to himself,.
SI: But you have no less passion and interest for prepping this week’s NFL game than you did for the Hawai‘i Islanders back in the 1960s.Right, I would say this: It’s studying for a final exam every week. I’m used to it. You have to do the grunt work. People say, “Are you nervous when you go in there?” You go, “No, I’m anxious. I want it to start. Nervous would be if I wasn’t prepared”—and I can’t let myself ever get to that point.
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