Al Michaels isn’t ready to retire.
The legendary play-by-play voice, who recently turned 81 years old, wants to continue calling “Thursday Night Football” for Amazon Prime Video, a role he’s held since the 2022 season.
“I feel really good right now. It’s been a good year. A lot of fun. I love the people I’m working with. So if I had to make a decision today, I would want to come back,” Michaels said on the “SI Media with Jimmy Traina” podcast.
Michaels, however, acknowledged that it’s not solely his decision.
“It’s a two-way street here,” he said. “They could tell me, ‘Hey, we gotta move on. It’s time to make a transition.’ All that. It could happen.
“But as of the moment, as we sit here on this mid-November afternoon, I feel really good. Still love what I do. And again, work with a tremendous crew. So, yeah, I think at this moment in time, I’d like to continue, yes.”
Michaels left NBC to join Amazon, which acquired the “TNF” rights before the 2022 season in a deal that brought a full-season NFL package to a streaming service for the first time.
He calls the games with ESPN/ABC college football color commentator Kirk Herbstreit.
Michaels initially signed a three-year contract with Amazon that paid him $15 million per season. He reportedly returned on a one-year contract with a plan to consider his status in the booth on a year-by-year basis.
The Brooklyn native and longtime Los Angeles resident was the long-standing voice of “Monday Night Football” before moving to NBC with John Madden to call “Sunday Night Football” in 2006.
Amazon has six games left on its 2025 schedule, including Thursday’s Bills vs. Texans game and the Black Friday Bears vs. Eagles matchup.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
