The winning bidder and a lucky friend will have brunch with one of the most renowned sports broadcasters of all time, Al Michaels, in Los Angeles!
Called “TV’s best play-by-play announcer” by the Associated Press, and one of television's most respected journalists, Al Michaels is the voice of NBC’s Sunday Night Football and serves as host of the first events in the new “PBC on NBC” boxing series. Michaels has covered more major sports events than any sportscaster, including 20 years as the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football. He is the only commentator to call the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals and host the Stanley Cup Final for network television. In addition, Michaels called the classic 1985 championship boxing match between “Sugar” Ray Leonard and “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler.
Among his many accolades, Michaels has captured seven Emmy Awards – six for Outstanding Sports Personality – Play-by-Play and one in 2011 for the Lifetime Achievement Award, and has three times (1980, 1983 and 1986) received the NSSA Award from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association; he was inducted into the NSSA Hall of Fame in 1998. Michaels was named Sportscaster of the Year in 1996 by the American Sportscasters Association, and, in 1991, he was named Sportscaster of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review.
Michaels received three major industry honors in 2013. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with the prestigious Pete Rozelle Radio & Television Award, which distinguishes long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football. In addition, Michaels was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which annually recognizes television’s most distinguished “innovators and icons.” Last December, the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame recognized Michaels for his “excellence and lifetime achievement,” and he was inducted as a member of its 2013 Hall of Fame Class.
Michaels garnered his first Sportscaster of the Year award in 1980, the year he made his memorable call, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” on the U.S. men’s hockey team’s dramatic upset victory over the USSR at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. His reputation for Olympic acumen grew with his coverage of figure skating and hockey at the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo, and track & field and road cycling at the Summer Games in Los Angeles. He also called hockey during the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games.
Regarded as one of the best baseball announcers of all time, Michaels was ABC’s lead baseball play-by-play announcer during the network’s coverage of Major League Baseball. He has also earned praise as a journalist and became just the second sportscaster in history to receive a News Emmy nomination for his coverage of the San Francisco earthquake during the 1989 World Series.
On February 1 in Arizona, Michaels called his ninth Super Bowl – the thrilling four-point New England Patriots victory over the Seattle Seahawks in the most-watched show in U.S. TV history with an average of 114.4 million viewers. Michaels recently completed his record 29th as the play-by-play announcer of the NFL in primetime. He received critical acclaim for his call of Super Bowl XLVI on NBC. Michaels also called Super Bowl XLIII for NBC and hosted NBCSN’s weekday afternoon and NBC’s weekend daytime coverage of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. He served in the same role for NBC at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the most-watched event in U.S. television history, and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
Michaels’ autobiography, You Can’t Make This Up (released Nov. 18, 2014), reached the top 10 on the New York Times best-seller list for hard-cover, non-fiction titles.