Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth will do their customary prep work for NBC’s broadcast of Super Bowl LVI in the two weeks leading up to the NFL’s title game – it’s the 11th for Michaels as the play-by-play man and the fifth for the former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver in the booth.
But when separately speaking to For The Win ahead of the big game in Los Angeles – fun fact, the first Collinsworth will call without Tom Brady on the field – the two broadcast vets both independently cited the same quote they remember from the late John Madden, who died last December at the age of 85 and who was Michaels’ broadcast partner for seven years.
