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Since 2022, longtime broadcaster Al Michaels served as the play-by-play voice for Amazon Prime Video’s "Thursday Night Football," partnering with Kirk Herbstreit.
On Saturday night, as the NFL Playoffs kick off, Michaels will call his 31st career postseason game at Soldier Field, with the Green Bay Packers facing the Chicago Bears exclusively on Prime Video.
Michaels is one of the most accomplished broadcasters in NFL history, having called games for more than 40 seasons. He is best known for his long run at NBC alongside Cris Collinsworth on "Sunday Night Football."
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Now 81 years old, speculation has grown about how much longer Michaels plans to remain in the booth. According to Amazon, however, he is expected to return for the 2026 season, a detail the company revealed to Sports Business Journal ahead of the weekend’s game.
“First of all, I feel great,” Michaels said. “Everyone at Amazon has been fantastic and I love working with this group. I’ve been looking at this year one year at a time, and as long as I feel I’m at the top of my game, I’d like to continue.”
Michaels admitted he was “pleasantly surprised” to learn that he and Herbstreit would get the honor of calling one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports, with the Packers and Bears meeting in the first round of the playoffs.
The last time Michaels called a postseason game at Soldier Field, it didn’t end well for Chicago. That contest was the NFC Wild Card matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles, when Bears kicker Cody Parkey missed a potential game-winning field goal after it hit the upright and then the crossbar — forever remembered as the infamous “double doink.”
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