YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP covers it all; the thrilling victories, the agonizing defeats, the chicanery and all of the fantastic inside stories including the surprising birth date information he received from Charlie Hustle; his near miss covering “Motorcycles on Ice” for The Wide World of Sports; bearing witness as Howard Cosell breaks up a nighttime street fight in Kansas City not with force or wisdom, but with fight analysis; and his memorable missed put on the 18th green playing in a competitive foursome with the Manning brothers. It’s just as you would expect from the inimitable Al Michaels.
ABOUT AL MICHAELS
Al Michaels has logged more hours on live primetime over-the-air network television than anyone in history, including twenty years as the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football. He won his first Sportscaster of the Year award in 1980, became the second sportscaster in history to receive a News Emmy nomination for his coverage of the San Francisco earthquake during the 1989 World Series, and was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 2011 Sports Emmys. Michaels has covered eight Olympics, and is currently the play-by-play voice of NBC’s Sunday Night Football, TV’s highest rated show. Michaels and his wife Linda, who met in the 10th grade and have been married for 48 years, live in Los Angeles. They have two children and four grandchildren.