Al Michaels wants you to know something. He’s happy. He feels good and he’s not going anywhere, anytime soon.
Two weeks ago the New York Post first reported that NBC was removing Michaels from its NFL playoff coverage. In his first public comments since that happened, Michaels told USA TODAY Sports he plans to finish his Amazon contract, which has one more year remaining on it. Perhaps most importantly, Michaels made it clear how much he still loves doing his job.
“I feel good,” Michaels said. “I feel healthy. I feel fine. I told Amazon that I’d do three years and next year will be three, and I’m definitely doing it. We’ll see after that.”
“I still love this job. I still get a charge out of going into a stadium and watching the best in the world do what they do. I’m still really happy so that’s the big thing.”
Michaels was named into an emeritus role at NBC after departing last year following the end of his contract. Michaels, 79, then joined Amazon Prime, but he was scheduled to return to NBC to do one of the network’s two Wild Card games. Then NBC decided Michaels wasn’t doing the playoff games. It was fairly disgraceful treatment of a broadcasting legend.
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Michaels declined to comment on NBC’s move.
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