How long before the NFL tells Al Michaels to cool it

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With the spread references. Seems to make them more obvious each year.

He was practically laughing about the safety tonight.

For a league so image conscious about gambling (which is stupid, why else would anyone watch half these shitty teams), surprised they don't have him tone it down.
 

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Not going to happen, NFL knows gambling is a huge part of their product.
Been going on since Jimmy the Greek at CBS was pedicting outcomes with Brent on the old NFL Today in the 70's
Brent makes references every game he broadcasts, right before the kickoff he tells you what team is favored by how much.
 

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there is nothing wrong with mentioning the spread of the game it's worse to pretend it doesn't exist.
nba is the most crooked league in north america and they would never mention spread implications,
since when is the nfl so image conscious about gambling? the nfl network talks about fantasy football more than I talk about whores with my buddies and last night me and 2 buds pounded a whore until 6am and she shoved a grey goose bottle almost half way up her box that bottle is sitting next to his t.v. and it looks greasy......great times!!!!
 
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For a league so image conscious about gambling (which is stupid, why else would anyone watch half these shitty teams), surprised they don't have him tone it down.

Personally i find he's a pleasure to listen to, and a big reason for watching a game.
Like Frank Gifford way back when.
 

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I agree, Michaels rarely makes a mistake in a four hour broadcast, Gifford was great also.
Tom Brookshire was also a great one.
Today's new guard sucks, ESPN pro football coverage is downright unlistenable.
Moose, Goose and Albert are intolerable on Fox.

Simm's team on CBS is a pretty good listen though.
 

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8/23/2010 1:00 PM ET By Ryan Wilson

Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth Know Betting Lines
in Preseason Too​
I’ll be honest: I usually tend to pay
attention to such things, but I didn’t even
know the spread of Sunday night’s
Vikings-49ers preseason game.
(Because, you know, it’s a preseason
game.) That, a bad hairpiece and millions
of dollars separate me from NBC’s Al
Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, both of
whom got a good chuckled about how
San Francisco ended things against
Minnesota.
Ah, yes, the life of the degenerate
gambler. Yards and seconds away from
making a few bucks only to have it all
disappear in the time it takes a rookie to
get tackled in his own end zone to end a
game that nobody on the planet should​
care about.
 

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