Al Michaels isn’t able to retire.
The legendary play-by-play voice, who not too long ago turned 81 years outdated, needs to proceed calling “Thursday Evening Soccer” for Amazon Prime Video, a task he’s held because the 2022 season.
“I really feel actually good proper now. It’s been an excellent yr. Numerous enjoyable. I really like the individuals I’m working with. So if I needed to decide right this moment, I might wish to come again,” Michaels mentioned on the “SI Media with Jimmy Traina” podcast.
Michaels, nonetheless, acknowledged that it’s not solely his resolution.
“It’s a two-way road right here,” he mentioned. “They may inform me, ‘Hey, we gotta transfer on. It’s time to make a transition.’ All that. It might occur.
“However as of the second, as we sit right here on this mid-November afternoon, I really feel actually good. Nonetheless love what I do. And once more, work with an amazing crew. So, yeah, I feel at this second in time, I’d prefer to proceed, sure.”
Michaels left NBC to affix Amazon, which acquired the “TNF” rights earlier than the 2022 season in a deal that introduced a full-season NFL bundle to a streaming service for the primary time.
He calls the video games with ESPN/ABC faculty soccer shade commentator Kirk Herbstreit.
Michaels initially signed a three-year contract with Amazon that paid him $15 million per season. He reportedly returned on a one-year contract with a plan to think about his standing within the sales space on a year-by-year foundation.
The Brooklyn native and longtime Los Angeles resident was the long-standing voice of “Monday Evening Soccer” earlier than shifting to NBC with John Madden to name “Sunday Evening Soccer” in 2006.
Amazon has six video games left on its 2025 schedule, together with Thursday’s Payments vs. Texans recreation and the Black Friday Bears vs. Eagles matchup.
