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Al Michaels

Al Michaels

Keynote Speaker: NBC Sports Sunday Night Football Broadcaster

Al Michaels Biography

Al Michaels, the play-by-play voice for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, called Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022 on NBC and Peacock. The Super Bowl marks Michaels’ 11th Super Bowl play-by-play assignment – the most ever for a television commentator, joining former CBS and FOX announcer Pat Summerall (11).

One of the most renowned sports broadcasters of all time and the commentator called “TV’s best play-by-play announcer” by the Associated Press, Michaels recently completed his 16th season as the voice of NBC’s Sunday Night Football and record 36th campaign as the play-by-play announcer of the NFL in primetime.

SNF averaged 18.5 million TV viewers in 2021 (with a Total Audience Delivery average of 19.3 million viewers), and is on pace to rank as primetime’s #1 TV show in all key metrics for an unprecedented 11th consecutive year – adding to its record for the most successive years atop the charts (since 1950), based on official live plus same day data provided by Nielsen.

In December 2020, Michaels was honored with the 2021 Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Michaels is one of only five distinguished broadcasters to be recognized with the baseball honor and the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Award (Dick Enberg, Lindsey Nelson, Jack Buck, and Curt Gowdy).

In the first 15 seasons on NBC (2006-20), Sunday Night Football has won 30 Sports Emmys. Following the 2018 season, NBC SNF became the first-ever 10-time honoree for Outstanding Live Sports Series and won its 11th honor in the category following the most recent NFL season (2020). From the 2008-13 NFL seasons, Sunday Night Football won six consecutive Outstanding Live Sports Series honors – also a Sports Emmy record – and won again following the 2015-2018 and 2020 NFL seasons.

In September 2018, as Michaels began his 10th season in the SNF booth with Cris Collinsworth, USA Today profiled the duo, writing: “Michaels and Collinsworth — oh, heck, let’s just call them Al and Cris; they’re on a first-name basis with America…Turn on the TV. Listen to the timbre of Al’s voice. Hear the mirth audible in Cris’. Taken together, their voices have come to mean Big Game.”

On February 4, 2018, Michaels called Super Bowl LII on NBC – his 10th Super Bowl in the booth In addition, Michaels’ call of the Eagles-Patriots title game from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, came nearly 30 years to the day since his first Super Bowl play-by-play assignment – ABC’s broadcast of Super Bowl XXII. He is the only TV commentator with a Super Bowl play-by-play run of three decades.

On August 4, 2017, NBC Sunday Night Football was honored with a display in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for “its record run as the #1 show in all of primetime television.”

In 2016, Michaels also served as the play-by-play voice of the NBC/NFL Network Thursday Night Football series, which ranked as primetime’s #2 show in the 2016-17 TV season.

In February 2015 in Arizona, Michaels called Super Bowl XLIX – the thrilling four-point New England Patriots victory over the Seattle Seahawks which still ranks as the most-watched show in U.S. TV history (average of 114.4 million viewers). Michaels’ previous Super Bowl — Super Bowl XLVI, which Michaels called with Collinsworth on NBC in February 2012 — was the most-viewed program in U.S. television history at the time.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Michaels served a host on NBC’s daytime coverage. He hosted NBCSN’s weekday afternoon and NBC’s weekend daytime coverage of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, and served in the same role for NBC at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the most-watched event in U.S. television history, and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. In 2015, Michaels served as host of the first events in the “PBC on NBC” boxing series.

Michaels’ autobiography, "You Can’t Make This Up" (released Nov. 18, 2014), was for two months on the New York Times best-seller list for hard-cover, non-fiction titles.

One of television’s most respected journalists, Michaels has covered more major sports events than any sportscaster, including 20 years as the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football. He is the only commentator to call the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals and host the Stanley Cup Final for network television. In addition, Michaels called the classic 1985 championship boxing match between Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns and “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler.

Among his many accolades, Michaels has captured eight Emmy Awards – seven for Outstanding Sports Personality – Play-by-Play and one in 2011 for the Lifetime Achievement Award, and has three times (1980, 1983 and 1986) received the NSSA Award from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association; he was inducted into the NSSA Hall of Fame in 1998. Michaels was named Sportscaster of the Year in 1996 by the American Sportscasters Association, and, in 1991, he was named Sportscaster of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review. In 2004, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Michaels received three major industry honors in 2013. First, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with the prestigious Pete Rozelle Radio & Television Award, which distinguishes long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football. Michaels was then inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which annually recognizes television’s most distinguished “innovators and icons.” Finally, in December 2013, the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame recognized Michaels for his “excellence and lifetime achievement,” and he was inducted as a member of its 2013 Hall of Fame Class.

Michaels garnered his first Sportscaster of the Year award in 1980, the year he made his memorable call, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” on the U.S. men’s hockey team’s dramatic upset victory over the USSR at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. His reputation for Olympic acumen grew with his coverage of figure skating and hockey at the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo, and track & field and road cycling at the Summer Games in Los Angeles. He also called hockey during the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games.

Regarded as one of the best baseball announcers of all time, Michaels was ABC’s lead baseball play-by-play announcer during the network’s coverage of Major League Baseball. He has also earned praise as a journalist and became just the second sportscaster in history to receive a News Emmy nomination for his coverage of the San Francisco earthquake during the 1989 World Series.

Michaels currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

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Al Michaels Videos

NBC Sports’ Al Michaels Talks Super Bowl LVI, Tom Brady & More
Al Michaels On His Future, the ManningCast & More
2021 FORD C. FRICK AWARD WINNER AL MICHAELS

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Al Michaels is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Football, Olympic Sports, Outdoor Sports & Recreation, Television & Film, Faith & Religion, Athlete, Sports Writing, Sports, Sports Journalism & Broadcasting, Broadcasting and News & Media.

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Al Michaels is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Football, Olympic Sports and Outdoor Sports & Recreation. The estimated speaking fee range to book Al Michaels for live events is $100,000 - $200,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Al Michaels generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth and Michael Lombardi. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Al Michaels for an upcoming event.

Al Michaels Videos

NBC Sports’ Al Michaels Talks Super Bowl LVI, Tom Brady & More
Al Michaels On His Future, the ManningCast & More
2021 FORD C. FRICK AWARD WINNER AL MICHAELS
Al Michaels reflects on memorable 'Miracle on Ice' call | NBC Sports

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