Al Michaels Quotes

Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.

I was in Minnesota in 2014 when Adrian Peterson was suspended. In that situation, we were about to play the Patriots when his suspension came out the Friday before the game.

For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.

Nobody's tuning in - let's check the TV Guide listings and see what game Joe Buck is calling. Nobody cares. They want to see the Cubs. They want to see the Packers. They want to see the Cowboys. They don't care who's calling the game.

My head coach in Minnesota, Dennis Green, loved wideouts with plenty of size.

Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.

I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.

Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.

If you're giving me tickets to the football game, baseball game or hockey game, I'm taking the tickets to the hockey game. For me, it's by far the most fun sport to go and watch live and be part of. I just don't know why it doesn't translate as well on TV.

Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.

I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.

Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.

Covering a Super Bowl is actually one of the easiest things we do because our most experienced people are there. We'll have 25,000 feet of film and there's no way you're going to miss anything.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and was a big Bills fan.

NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does.

The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first football game there as an Atlanta Falcon.

I went to North Carolina to play football.

But if you have live matches and there is TV coverage, I'm sure you have more viewership because people would love to see women's cricket again on television.

I loved Bud Grant.

At the end of the day, I want to have an opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL.