Al Michaels will probably be again to name NFL video games on Prime Video in 2026

Al Michaels has been making play-by-play requires prime-time NFL video games for 40 years.

His subsequent recreation will probably be Saturday, when the Chicago Bears host the Green Bay Packers in an NFC wild-card recreation on Amazon Prime Video.

It received’t be his final.

Michaels will return to name video games for Prime Video’s NFL protection subsequent season, the streaming service confirmed Friday. The 81-year-old Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer has been the play-by-play announcer for “Thursday Night Football,” with shade commentator Kirk Herbstreit, since Prime Video acquired the rights to these video games beginning within the 2022 season.

After initially receiving a three-year deal from Amazon, which expired after 2024, Michaels reportedly labored this season below a one-year deal. Michaels told Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina in November that he could be blissful to return in 2026 if Amazon would have him.

“It’s a two-way street here,” Michaels stated. “They could tell me, ‘We got to move on, it’s time to make a transition,’ all that. I don’t know, that could happen. But as of the moment as we sit here on this mid-November afternoon, I feel really good, still love what I do and, again, work with a tremendous crew. So, yeah, I think at this moment in time, I would like to continue, yes.”

One of Michaels’ first jobs out of school was a really temporary stint with the legendary Chick Hearn on Lakers radio broadcasts in 1967. Since then, he has gone on to announce among the greatest moments in sports activities historical past, together with his signature “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” name of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey crew’s upset of the Soviet Union.

Michaels was the play-by-play voice of ABC’s “Monday Night Football” from 1986 to 2005 and NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” from 2006 to 2021. He has known as 11 Super Bowls, most not too long ago on Feb. 13, 2022, when the Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium.