Al Michaels
Al Michaels
Alan Richard "Al" Michaelsis an American television sportscaster...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth12 November 1944
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
move
How could it be better than this? I think it should move here permanently.
distract respond thinking
I don't let anything distract me or unsettle me. I'm thinking of this year. I can't respond to rumors.
began miss realize
I began to realize more and more how much I was going to miss being with those people. That's my family, that's my broadcasting family.
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For the last few years, we at ABC have been lobbying for a... flexible schedule... which would allow us to select a game of importance in the latter part of the season. We'd like to think that progress has been made in this area, but one of the problems is that the other television partners, FOX and CBS, would lose one game from their inventory. Neither of those networks want to lose a game, and I can certainly understand their reasoning.
anywhere blog
If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.
delivering johnson national smith speech town
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
adding bad insult
That's a bad call. That's adding insult to injury.
half mess
They made a mess of the end of the first half and the end of the game.
case four gotten last stay
It was more a case of me being very comfortable if I could stay with my group. It couldn't have gotten any better than it was the last four years.
adjunct people watch
The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. That's why you are there. For the game, you can't go away from the game and beat your chest. People are there to watch the game. You are there to supplement, not to override or overwhelm.
enjoy gone maybe minute moment nature relish wish
You wish maybe it could've gone on forever, but that's the nature of the business, ... This year, I'm just going to enjoy every moment and relish every minute of every game.
chicago guys
You've got these guys and the Chicago Bears.
air happens original time unless
I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.
game lion next people preparing season starts
I won't be part of anything that distracts from our telecast. We are preparing to do a game that about 100 mil- lion people will watch. That is all we are doing. Next season starts next week.