{"id":425399,"date":"2023-05-20T20:33:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T20:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=425399"},"modified":"2023-05-20T20:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T20:33:48","slug":"al-michaels-responds-to-being-accused-of-terrible-announcement-im-not-going-to-oversell-a-game-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/al-michaels-responds-to-being-accused-of-terrible-announcement-im-not-going-to-oversell-a-game-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Michaels Responds To Being Accused Of Terrible Announcement: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to oversell a game to you.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Michaels of Amazon received a lot of criticism for his lack of passion throughout the last\u00a0NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>This past NFL season, the longtime voice of Monday Night Football and then Sunday Night Football became the first voice of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video. He compared some of the poor games he called last season to trying to sell an old vehicle. However, given the awful schedule from last season, Michaels is excited about what 2023 has in store for TNF.<\/p>\n<h2>Al Michaels Responds To Being Accused Of Terrible Announcement: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to oversell a game to you.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The fiery 78-year-old broadcaster admitted to Pat McAfee on Friday that he had effectively given up on making chicken salad out of chicken sh*t.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I think the start of the Indy 500 is exhilarating as anything in sports&quot; ~ Al Michaels<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMSLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zVhTArxASR\">pic.twitter.com\/zVhTArxASR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1659615456620351491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not Al&#8217;s words, but mine. Even so, I&#8217;m not too far off!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of, a lot of the games we had weren\u2019t very good,\u201d he said. \u201cSo if I didn\u2019t sound excited\u2026If I sounded too excited, people would go, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s just trying to sell this crap.\u2019 No! Can\u2019t do that and I won\u2019t do that. I think that\u2019s been my M.O. for almost four decades now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I am addicted to hockey and always have been..<\/p>\n<p>I was rooting for them not to score because I wanted to see an eighth period last night&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Al Michaels <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMSLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nqkSoFmGHF\">pic.twitter.com\/nqkSoFmGHF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1659613994188152833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to oversell a game to you. That\u2019s wrong,\u201d Michaels continued. \u201cI can\u2019t come on the air yelling, hollering, and screaming. Where do you go from there? And people expect me to be in rhythm with the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The Thursday Night Football schedule looks great on paper..<\/p>\n<p>The matchups look much better than last year and hopefully these games will be compelling&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Al Michaels <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMSLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n0G5Dq8OSZ\">pic.twitter.com\/n0G5Dq8OSZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1659612367146356736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of talks with Jim Nantz and Joe Buck and my brother about this too. Where is the game? I\u2019ve always said, in a way, the game is a melody and you provide the lyrics. And if the lyrics don\u2019t match the melody, it sounds cacophonous.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;ve been harsh on myself for my entire career..<\/p>\n<p>This will be my 38th year calling the NFL and you always wanna pitch a perfect game&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Al Michaels <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMSLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NXOH9fCipI\">pic.twitter.com\/NXOH9fCipI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1659617047352061952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Michaels made it quite obvious that the quality of the games, or lack thereof, was to blame rather than himself for the lack of enthusiasm for last year&#8217;s events. The slate for the 2023 NFL season is projected to be better, so it will be interesting to watch whether that changes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"49ers Christian McCaffrey Explains: Trade Comments Weren\u2019t Made To Shade Panthers\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/49ers-christian-mccaffrey-explains-trade-comments-werent-made-to-shade-panthers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">49ers Christian McCaffrey Explains: Trade Comments Weren\u2019t Made To Shade Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Michaels of Amazon received a lot of criticism for his lack of passion throughout the last\u00a0NFL season. This past NFL season, the longtime voice of Monday Night Football and then Sunday Night Football became the first voice of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video. He compared some of the poor games he called last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":409916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[3345,8559,8560,8558],"class_list":["post-425399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-al-michaels","tag-al-michaels-news","tag-al-michaels-nfl-fans","tag-al-michaels-terrible-announcement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}