People didn’t know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.
AL MICHAELSWell, folks. That’s the greatest open in the history of television — bar none!
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I’ve always felt that I’m in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.
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Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.
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And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my – the tonal quality, with getting excited.
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It’s funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they’re always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
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And if there aren’t any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.
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Do you believe in miracles?
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Well, folks. That’s the greatest open in the history of television — bar none!
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If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that’s good or bad for the game.
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We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don’t know what a firestorm is.
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I always believe in miracles.
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There are some things in life where it’s better to receive than to give, and massage is one of them.
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You want the lyrics to match the melody, because if you are composing a song or recording a song, it’s cacophonous if they don’t match.
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I think that’s worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.
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When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something.
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Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock’s painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia…a true masterpiece!
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