Amazon’s Ridiculous Offer for Al Michaels to Call Thursday Night Football Revealed

Al Michael is about to get paid.

The legendary broadcaster has been with NBC’s Sunday Night Football since 2006 after leaving ABC’s Monday Night Football where he was employed from 1986 to 2005.

Now he’s headed to Thursday Night Football on Amazon and he’s rumored to be finalizing a contract to pay him more than most players. According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, the Al Michaels contract is at the ‘half yard line’

Michaels is about to make more than most NFL players. Michaels will call all 16 games for the streaming platform.

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If Al Michaels' Amazon deal goes through, he will call all of the platforms' 16 Thursday Night Football games, according to sources.

Deal is at half yard line.

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) March 14, 2022

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There was talk of Al Michaels' possibly just doing 11 of the 16 Amazon games, which is where the $30 million range contract talk came from. He is now doing all 16, if deal goes through with Amazon. So that total salary number maybe headed even further north. #DoYouBelieveInMoney

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) March 15, 2022

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The Al Michaels/Amazon north of $30M number is over the length of the three year contract, not per season.

Still, an insane amount of money, but aggregators hold your fire.

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) March 15, 2022

Michaels was making around $6 million per year at NBC according to reports, so the 77-year-old could see his annual salary double.

So it sounds like Al Michaels will make about 600 Grand per game, which is a nice reason to show up to work.

The Streaming Wars are making everyone rich.

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