I'd rather hear a shadow of Al Michaels every game for the rest of my football viewing life than the rest of everything else out there.
I wish, this time around, that he had a better color man. I got peeved with Collinsworth at times, too, but he wasn't like that guy at the next table in a sports bar that made you want to move to another seat.
In a former life I did a little broadcasting - DJ and calling local ball games. Later in life I've been miked up to do seminars and demonstrations at sports shows. I have a critical ear for tone of voice, modulation, spoken grammar, pacing, content, and on-mike persona.
In the past the networks hired for those things.
Today, nasal voiced monotone star power now reigns supreme for color announcers, and dull, duller, and dullest now passes for play-by-play.
Michaels is an old-school old pro. Who, out of the current crop, does a better job?
