Al Michaels, play-by-play announcer for Thursday Night Football, was trolled on social media for his ‘lifeless’ commentary during the Buffalo Bills vs New England Patriots Week 13 tie. The two sides locked horns at the Gillette Stadium.
The Buffalo Bills won the game 24-10.
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Viewers complained that Michaels was emotionless while commentating. They added that he sounded as if he was bored.
“Every time Al Michaels tosses to commercial and says “we’re back in 30 seconds,” I want to scream, “DON’T WORRY AL, WE’RE TRAPPED AND CAN’T CHANGE THE CHANNEL,” a Twitter user said.
The 78-year-old sportscaster has worked on network sports television since 1971. He was associated with ABC for nearly three decades. Michaels was also associated with NBC. He called at the 1980 Winter Olympics and 1989 World Series.
Al Michaels is currently associated with Amazon Prime for their Thursday Night coverage.
“Al Michaels needs to retire. Zero emotion. Patriots just threw a screen to a corner for a TD and he acted like it was a 5 yard out,” another one added.
“Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit have the chemistry of a cranky uncle and glum nephew enduring a three hour car ride to a place neither one wants to go,” a third one said.
Talking ahead of the Patriots vs Bills matchup, Michaels had said, “Some games have been better than others. We’re really looking forward to [this game] because it’s a great matchup for us. And to start something from scratch and just build the entire infrastructure from nothing, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to do. So putting the whole crew together, all of the pieces together, the technology is over the moon they tell me, the trucks are state-of-the-art. So there are a lot of toys to play with.”
