Al Michaels

Alan Richard "Al" Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is a sportscaster. After spending three decades with ABC Sports, he was hired by NBC Sports to commentate on Sunday Night Football.

Monday Night Football

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From 1986 to 2005, Al Michaels was the main commentator for Monday Night Football. He commentated against other great announcers such as Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf as well as John Madden. It was his longest running stint as a sports commentator. When ABC announced that the series would be moving to ESPN, Michaels had planned on moving on with it, although his partner Madden decided to move to NBC.

Sunday Night Football

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Despite announcing his intent to stay with ABC, it appeared as if he was trying to get out of his contract with ABC to allow him to join his former partner Madden. In order to get him out of his contract, NBC had to give up rights to certain things to ESPN. But eventually a deal was reached, and Al Michaels joined the Sunday Night Football Team, where he would comment alongside Madden until 2009, when he'd get a new partner in Cris Collinsworth