1. Al Michaels is an American television sportscaster and he is best known for his many years calling play-by-play of National Football League games.
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1. Al Michaels is an American television sportscaster and he is best known for his many years calling play-by-play of National Football League games.
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7. Al Michaels tried to compare the Giants to a current topical news story that involved someone having a rough week.
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8. Al Michaels broke into the world of sports with the Los Angles Lakers when the team hired him to do their public relations in 1964.
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11. Al Michaels had called Sunday Night Football, with John Madden from August 6, 2006—April 15, 2009.
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14. Al Michaels became the lead announcer replacing Keith Jackson in 1983.
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16. Al Michaels called play-by-play for the University of Hawaii's football and basketball teams as well as high school football games and was named Hawaii's "Sportscaster of the Year" in 1969.
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18. Al Michaels is known for famous calls in other sports, including the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the earthquake-interrupted Game 3 of the 1989 World Series.
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19. Al Michaels will kick it to Carrie Underwood, who will lead all of America into Sunday Night Football in which the Chicago Bears will take on the Minnesota Vikings.
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20. Al Michaels was right on Sunday Night Football when he said MVS was a star in the making.
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26. Al Michaels served as daytime co-host for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and co-hosted the Closing Ceremony (with Costas and Ryan Seacrest).
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27. In March 2009, it was announced that Al Michaels would be serving as the daytime host for NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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28. Al Michaels was hired to replace Nessler as lead broadcaster of the NBA.
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29. Soon after Al Michaels handed off to his broadcast partner, Tim McCarver, who started assessing the Giants' chances for victory in the game, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck.
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30. On October 17, 1989, Al Michaels was in San Francisco, preparing to cover the third game of the 1989 World Series between the home team, the Giants, and the visiting Oakland Athletics.
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34. Over the next three decades, Al Michaels covered a wide variety of sports for ABC, including Major League Baseball, college football, college basketball, ice hockey, track and field events, horse racing, golf, boxing, figure skating, road cycling, and many events of the Olympic Games as well as the Olympic trials.
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35. Al Michaels initially joined ABC as the back-up announcer on Monday Night Baseball in 1976.
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36. Al Michaels helped cover the Fall Classic for NBC Sports, and was the network's play-by-play man for the hockey coverage at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
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37. In 1971, Al Michaels moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became the lead announcer for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball.
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38. In 1970, Al Michaels appeared as attorney Dave Bronstein in an episode of Hawaii Five-O called "Run, Johnny, Run"; the episode featured a young Christopher Walken.
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39. Al Michaels resumed his broadcasting career in 1968, calling the games of the Hawaii Islanders baseball team in the Pacific Coast League.
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43. Al Michaels has seen a lot of sporting events and plenty of NFL games during his 54-year legendary broadcast career.
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