Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.
AL MICHAELSI’ve always felt that I’m in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.
More Al Michaels Quotes
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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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As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game.
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You heard it here first!’ Who cares? That’s nothing but a vanity play. If it’s not right, it’s garbage.
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When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something.
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The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
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No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
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Well, folks. That’s the greatest open in the history of television — bar none!
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People didn’t know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.
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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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It’s the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print.
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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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I think that’s worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.
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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 the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme.
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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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