or I\u2019ll know myself<\/a>, a combination,\u201d Michaels said, via Sam Neumann of Awful Announcing. \u201cLet\u2019s put it this way. The folks at Amazon and Prime have been fantastic. Fantastic to me.\u201d<\/p>\nAfter his initial three-year deal, Prime Video has extended the arrangement on a one-year basis, twice. If they don\u2019t do it again, Michaels will be fine with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they come to me and say, \u2018You know, it\u2019s time for us to move on.\u2019 . . . \u2018You guys have been fantastic. You\u2019ve been great.\u2019 I\u2019ve done the NFL for 41 years, which is half my life. Love it. But you know what? At a certain time, it\u2019s time. And if they feel it\u2019s time, great. And if I feel it\u2019s time, I\u2019ll know it. And I\u2019ll say, \u2018You know what? Thanks for the memories.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
We\u2019re the ones who should be thanking him. As we\u2019ve said before, many won\u2019t appreciate how much of our sports-watching lives he has influenced until he\u2019s no longer part of it. And while there are plenty of highly competent voices out there, Michaels is one of the very best to ever do it \u2014 possibly the best of all of the play-by-play announcers.<\/p>\n
He has been able to land in a high-profile spot after his tenure at NBC ended before he likely wanted it to. We\u2019ve been able to listen to him call games for another four-plus years, thanks to the fact that Prime Video hired him.<\/p>\n
So either he\u2019ll walk away or he\u2019ll get a nudge. Either way, Michaels\u2019s long and distinguished journey has much greater meaning than however the road ends. For me and many others, it won\u2019t be the same to go through a football season without hearing him calling a game every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legendary Al Michaels continues to call the biggest of NFL games, four decades after making his debut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-882902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}