Wingnut Al Michaels is going to be salty tonight

[SaintLouisBlues]

And he's a shitty play-by-play man also. "Anddddddddddddddddddddd..............caught."

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. I had no idea!

I just found this site that tracks the political donations of sportscasters, and there's Al Michaels with 100% to the GOP! Same for Collinsworth!

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2007/01/politics/

And yet there's Chris Berman, who I've despised for years over his past unprofessional pro-Bills and anti-Bengals commentary, giving 100% to the Democrats.

[SaintLouisBlues]

4. Good to know about Berman. Now I dislike him less.

[SCantiGOP]

13. He gave the keynote address at a conference I attended

Great speech about the early days of ESPN.
Many people don’t even know what the acronym means - Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.
They named it that because they knew you couldn’t possibly have a station with just sports for 24 hours a day. So they planned to run old movies and other borrowed content.
When they signed on, the first show was a Division III college lacrosse game.

[TexasTowelie]

15. Interesting note at the end

since I'm an alum of Southwestern University and our team is the best Division III lacrosse team in Texas. Nearly all of the other universities in Texas play lacrosse as a club sport.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. Berman is Jewish. Most Jews are Dems.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. I never knew he was Jewish.

I was mostly annoyed by him trying to rewrite history, giving the Bills coach credit for their no-huddle offenses after that coach tried appealing to the NFL to stop the Bengals from doing it in previous seasons of the 80's.

Then his regular anti-Bengals cracks thereafter.

And given how that was only the start of their YEARS of futility, and I was an idiot who actually followed the NFL in those days, it annoyed me back then from a national broadcaster.

I only learned later that Berman was indeed a Bills fan, knowing very little about him otherwise.

[madinmaryland]

17. Well, there are Bungles and the Yuccaneers. The Yucc's was one of Boomer's favorite.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. It wasn't just the mocking nicknames that annoyed me...

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... but the dishonesty.

I saw him years ago praising Marv Levy (Bills coach) for supposedly inventing the no-huddle offense, but Berman knew damn well it was used by the Bengals previously... and it was Levy himself who had whined to the NFL in an attempt to make it illegal! The Bengals beat them three times that year of 1988 -- preseason game, regular season game and in the AFC championship game.

Edit:
And maybe I'm mistaken, but I never heard him called "Boomer" either until after Boomer Esiason was the NFL MVP that year too.
Maybe some Bengals fan beat him up or something? There was a period after that '88 season when he seemed to go way out of his way to troll the Bungles, though. He only slowed down after most Bungles fans reached the point where they'd say, "Yeah, they suck. So what else is new?" Lol.

Edit2: Heck, Levy successfully killed no-huddle for the Bengals that year! I forgot he succeeded! No wonder the Bengals didn't do it in the Super Bowl! That makes Berman's later bragging about Levy "inventing" it even more ridiculous.
https://buffalonews.com/news/no-huddle-issue-still-bothers-wyche-bengal-coach-has-grudge-against-bills/article_4daf56a4-5efd-518e-a535-8925855be901.html
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Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy succeeded in depriving Wyche of his beloved no-huddle offense before the teams met in the AFC Championship Game Jan. 8.

Despite the Bengals' 21-10 victory, Wyche simply can't allow himself to forgive and forget.

"We will remember that forever, every time we play Buffalo," he told Cincinnati reporters this week. "It's our style of play, and if Marv isn't happy with that, we're real sorry about it."
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[yonder]

6. Surprising. I would have swapped CC and CB.

Al Michaels has always been a goner in my book.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. It's indeed hard to peg them sometimes.

I found that website just minutes after seeing this thread, so I didn't devote any time trying to verify it.

[RockRaven]

2. You'd be hard pressed to find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than this game.

Those announcers plus Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Antonio Brown as the biggest names on the field.

[SaintLouisBlues]

3. And there's no such thing as miracles, Al. The US beat the Soviets fair and square. Outworked them.

Dude has ridden one lucky call since 1980.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. List

Jack Buck (D): donated 100 percent of his donations to the GOP.
Cris Collinsworth, NBC: 100 percent to the GOP.
Don Criqui, CBS: 100 percent to the GOP.
Dan Dierdorf, CBS: 100 percent to the GOP.
Mike Ditka, ESPN: 98 percent to the GOP.
Brian France, NASCAR: 83 percent to the GOP.
Mike Francesca, YES: 100 percent to the GOP.
Curt Gowdy (D): 78 percent to the GOP.
Keith Hernandez: 92 percent to the GOP.
Hootie Johnson: amazingly, 33 percent to the Democrats (60 percent to the GOP).
Mario Lemieux: 100 percent to the GOP?
Peyton Manning: 100 percent to the GOP.
Tim McCarver, FOX: 100 percent to the GOP.
Al Michaels, NBC: 100 percent to the GOP.
Jim Nantz, CBS: apparent golfing buddy of Bush 41; donates 60 percent to the GOP.
Vin Scully, L.A. Dodgers: 100 percent to the GOP.
Pat Summerall, FOX: 100 percent to the GOP.
Lynn Swann: despite running for Governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican last year, he donates 19 percent to the Democrats.
Steve Young, ESPN: 100 percent to the GOP.

[Wiz Imp]

11. Please note that list is 14 years old

No telling how accurate it is relative to 2020. I'm sure Al Michaels is still 100% GOP though. Pathetic asshole that he is.

[a kennedy]

19. Only one I really like is Rich Eisen.......and really don't want to know who he contributes to. eom

[redstateblues]

10. I've loathed Michaels since he questioned Joh Kerry's manhood

in the Bush campaign

[MaryMagdaline]

12. I've loathed him since he really "couldn't take sides" between OJ and

Nicole because “I know both of them.” (Yea, Al, but one of them murdered the other. That might be the starting point).

[redstateblues]

14. Wow! I didn't know that

[DeeDeeNY]

16. I thought he's a buddy of Keith Olbermann

I guess they don’t discuss politics