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NBC "Sunday Night Football" tandem Mike Tirico
and Cris Collinsworth have the call of the network's primary
playoff broadcast next month, but NBC declined to bring back
Michaels for the second game. Instead, the college football
broadcast team of Eagle and Todd Blackledge with sideline
reporter Kathryn Tappen was assigned the No. 2 game.
Michaels, 79, reportedly earns $1 million per game in an
agreement with Amazon that affords him the opportunity to accept
assignments from NBC in his "emeritus" label granted when he
left at the end of his last contract in 2022.
Michaels and Tony Dungy called the AFC wild-card game in
Jacksonville last year, when the Jaguars rallied from a 27-point
deficit to defeat the Los Angeles Chargers.
Eagle is the son of Ian Eagle, an established play-by-play
announcer for CBS, TBS and TNT, working college basketball, NBA
and NFL games. Noah Eagle replaced Ian Eagle on YES Network NBA
broadcasts this season.
Noah Eagle, Blackledge and Tappen are also assigned to the NBC
regular-season broadcast of Steelers-Bengals on Dec. 23 and the
Nickelodeon kid-focused broadcast of Super Bowl LVIII on Feb.
11.
Michaels has been the voice of primetime NFL coverage since
1986, first on "Monday Night Football" until he took the "Sunday
Night Football" job alongside John Madden in 2006. He worked in
the SNF role until the end of the 2021 season.
He currently calls Thursday night games streamed on Amazon Prime
Video with analyst Kirk Herbstreit.
--Field Level Media
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