Taylor Swift has reportedly decided to attend Thursday Night Football between the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos. The package’s play-by-play voice — the lengendary Al Michaels — says her attendance won’t change anything for Amazon Prime Video.
Swift’s attendance at previous Chiefs’ games drew much media attention during game broadcasts. Subsequently, reaction from the sports world has been critical of the coverage. Michaels believes a middle ground can be found.
“What we’re gonna do tonight, everything in moderation,” Michaels told Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina. “Our crew talked about it this morning. You can’t make a sideshow the show. The vast majority of the audience are tuning in to watch a football game. There are people — I don’t know how many, it could be a sizable number, but it’s certainly not a majority — that if you trained the camera on her all night long, they’d be satisfied with that. This is not what we’re doing to do.
“There might be an appropriate shot or a couple. I don’t know what the number is going to be. If Kelce scores six touchdowns, who the hell knows what we’re going to do. But for the most part, just in moderation. The game is still the important element here, by far. That’s our thought. After that, you sort of make it, one of my favorite words, farcical.”
The television legend added that the word “moderation” has been used multiple times by behind-the-scenes personnel when it comes to attention to Swift.
