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When it comes to NFL broadcasters, Al Michaels faces minimal criticism compared to most. However, in his first season calling games on Amazon, there was a little bit of blowback on social media regarding Michaels’s energy while calling some of the awful games that were played Thursday nights.
It didn’t help that Michaels called the Chargers-Jaguars playoff game on NBC with Tony Dungy, who seemed like he didn’t have a pulse for three hours.