No doubt I am overthinking it. But, while bad, I don’t think the games have been any worse than they have been in recent years (indeed, while inartful, they have at least been competitive), and are just what he should have expected them to be.
My hypothesis that he is lobbying to get better games assigned to Amazon is an attempt to be charitable to him. If not, I see him less as honestly telling it like it is, and more as a rich and entitled asshole who took a lot of money to call bad games and then angle to get cheap ratings by taking a public dump on the predictably bad teams whose games he had to call. On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 at 2:42 AM JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > So why complain so much when he is only getting what he signed up for? It > > makes me suspect Amazon wants him to in order to try to pressure the NFL > to > > give them better games next year. > > I suspect you're overthinking it. I'm sure Al knew that he'd be getting > lesser matchups on Thursdays; what neither he nor viewers expected was > games as awful as the last two Thursday nights. And Michaels has reached > the point where he can "tell it like it is" (to cite one of his former > colleagues) and call bad football bad football. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOGyjK-05poNd-TmdFxXJBggpCpfcdBgqcbcBrejYGDCLQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOGyjK-05poNd-TmdFxXJBggpCpfcdBgqcbcBrejYGDCLQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLg%3DKBYrwU5EcqkB0%2BL%3DmJafG%3DNqY4KPZ1qFg1cFmiQNg%40mail.gmail.com.
