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If he does go to the NFL, we get first dibs and he had better do a rookie contract or close to it. And if he does come back to Buffalo, @Araiza Curse needs to change his user name so the curse can be lifted! 😅

He still calls them for NBC since he hs emeritus there, and he was expecting to this year. He says it is in his contract. He has called them each year and did NBC's LAC-JAX Wild Card last year and one or two regular season games last year. This move is a stunner to all. Expect a lawsuit soon.

Al Michael, 79, storied play-by-play announcer for Amazon's TNF and announcer emeritus for NBC, is out for this year's playoffs on NBC, which does four playoff games this year. Michaels was unaware of this when contacted by the NY Post. Last year, Michaels did Chargers at Jaguars with Tony Dungy. https://nypost.com/2023/12/12/sports/al-michaels-out-of-nbcs-nfl-playoff-coverage-in-move-he-didnt-expect/amp/ "Al Michaels out of NBC’s NFL playoff coverage in move he wasn’t expecting Michaels called last year’s incredible Jaguars comeback win over the Chargers, but he and analyst Tony Dungy were widely panned for a perceived lack of enthusiasm. [...] When informed by The Post about it being in limbo, Michaels sounded unaware of the possibility. “It’s in my deal,” Michaels said. “Where are you hearing that from? That’s part of my deal. Are you hearing something that I’m not hearing?” There has long been tension between Michaels and top NBC executives, though they have done their best to hide it from public view, even giving Michaels an emeritus title when he was replaced. There was a failure to truly define what the emeritus role really meant, except for calling the playoff game. NBC decided to move on from Michaels, even though he longed to stay at the top perch on “Sunday Night Football.” NBC had long promised Tirico the lead role, and kept true to its word even after Michaels went out with a tremendous performance for NBC in the Super Bowl in February 2022."

UPDATE 5: All announcers have been finalized: https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists/nfl-week-15-announcer-assignments-revealed/ NFL Network Saturday: Denver at Detroit Kevin Harlan, Trent Green, Melanie Collins FOX Early: New York Giants at New Orleans Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma, Shannon Spake Atlanta at Carolina (C) Adam Amin, Mark Schlereth, Kristina Pink

Here is the video is tweet form:

Yep, Game 272. Calling it now!

At one point the guy in the back seems to be smirking at his tantrum.

Game 272 (Week 18 SNF): Buffalo at Miami for all the marbles.

Yep, and some want to draft a QB next year.

This always gets me:

LMAO! [AUDIO IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK DUE TO LANGUAGE]

Was a few days ago, but I thought I would still post it:

No! We have to play Tennessee next year!

Thank you to our friend Joe Schoen for trading Toney to the Chiefs last season. He was obviously onto something.

UPDATE 4: In no surprise to anyone, Dallas at Buffalo gets the FOX A-team of Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen, Erin Andrews, and Tom Rinaldi [announced by Greg Olsen on Mike and the Mad Dog show on sports radio on 12/4]

This is the first year there has been more than one week of two MNF games (in fact, three this year) and the first time it is so late in the season. This is the exact explanation I heard on some show on Fox Sports Radio this week.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/two-nfl-games-monday-night-football-doubleheader/164c3af4e262e4ae9a0a40f7 "Why are there two NFL games tonight? "There is not a specific reason for the two games being put on Monday. ESPN said only in its release that by having two games at the same time, "ESPN and the NFL transform a Sunday afternoon environment into a primetime window." "The latest schedule innovation during ESPN's most comprehensive NFL season in the company's history, features multiple games with playoff implications," the release said."

Ok, I reposted it in PPP, with a warning in the title due to content some may find distasteful.

Though this tweet is from a Miami fan, this fake speech actually had a really good message: to finish the game and play the second half like you did the first. Finish the job. Some might find it distasteful, so I took a member's advice on the main forum and decided to post it in this forum for the first time ever.

I think so but I am not familiar with it. It sounded a little like him but the language wasn't real Arabic, just like a non-native speaker trying to imitate it.