Howard Stern Has a Message For Al Michaels To Pass Along During Super Bowl Broadcast

The Super Bowl is the year’s most watched event on Television.

Plenty of eyeballs tuning in, usually north of 100 million Americans. Howard Stern interviewed Al Michaels this week. Stern used the air time to encourage the legendary sports broadcaster to tell Super Bowl viewers to get vaccinated.

Howard was just wishing  it was as easy as calling people out during a game.

“I know with sports, you can’t be controversial,” Stern said via his SiriusXM radio show. “No one’s there to hear your opinion. I get all that. But…Al, please — when you’re on there and you got 100 million people, tell them to get vaccinated for Christ’s sake. You know what I mean?”

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"I know with sports you can’t be controversial. No one’s there to hear your opinion … When you’re on there and you got 100 million people tell them to get vaccinated for Christ’s sake," @HowardStern pleaded with Super Bowl broadcaster Al Michaels. https://t.co/MhFl5mmLIG pic.twitter.com/dKN3Kw4ASr

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) February 8, 2022

“Don’t you ever wish you could sort of break out and say what you feel?” probed Stern. “Wouldn’t it be great to advocate a bit?”

“You’re right. When people tune in to watch the game, they want to watch the game,” said Michaels. “There’s a lot of stuff going on in sports around the game.”

Michaels then essentially told Stern that he and his broadcast partners would prefer to stick to sports:

“It’s not that Chris Collinsworth and I and Michele Tafoya don’t have opinions. We do. The structure of what’s happening in the middle of the game doesn’t allow you to do that.”

He continued: “And all that would do is piss a lot of people off, if you started going in that direction.”

Al Michaels will be calling his 11th Super Bowl on Sunday. He’s a Pro’s pro, and knows it’s not about sending political messages, it’s about covering a game, just like any other.

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