NBC removes Al Michaels from NFL playoff coverage, per report
Former "Sunday Night Football" commentator Al Michaels is out at NBC.
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This is probably the end of the road for Michaels. He's had a great career. One of the great voices in sports. Right up there with Vin Scully, Marv Albert, Pat Summerall and others. When you hear the voice, you know who it is and you know its a sporting event...or thanks to a weird set of circumstances...in Pat Summerall's case a commercial for True Value hardware stores. Neither here nor there but there was a college bowl game one year...I think it was the bluebonnet bowl down in Houston. Anyway, Channel 39 or 26 got the rights to it, somehow, and the only sponsor was True Value hardware stores. So every commerical...there was pat Summerall.
Anyway, Michaels, to me, lost a lot of my respect. I bought his book and downloaded it. Except for 2 chapters in his book, he doesn't narrate it. Like...really? I get it if you're just an author and you want to hire a linguist to read your work...but Michaels is one of the great voices of our time. And he doesn't read his own book? Couple that with his complaining about getting paid $15,000 (I think it was) for one afternoon of work on a movie (Costas got paid twice what he got paid and Michaels was upset).