Tag: Jimmy Traina

"I find it amazing what people latch onto. Definitely was not a shot."

"I think he has a chance to be great at this if he wants to do this and truly do it full-time.”

"(NBC) put an offer out there that was times three or four, which -- ok -- that took a while to get resolved."

I think it’s human nature to want to put your fingerprints and mold the broadcast -- as the boss -- the way you want to mold it."

"I don't know if I'm at liberty to say which games I'm doing, but I love calling games. Nothing like being at the stadium, nothing like being involved with a broadcast. I just dig it."

Al Michaels recognizes he is stepping into a big unknown with his role as the play-by-play announcer of a strictly streaming NFL package. Michaels, speaking...

"By the end of the first quarter, I said, ‘This is really working extremely well,’ and then we did 3 1/2 quarters that night," Michaels said.

"I mean, it's Football Night in America," Berry perked up. "It's the second-highest rated show, not sports show, the second-highest rated show in all of television. Second only to the actual game itself."

'Wait a minute, how are we telling people the score before they see the highlights? That doesn't make any sense.'

“The older I got, the more I found myself more of the sports media than the games sometimes. ESPN and SportsCenter was a huge part of my life back in the day before the internet. It's always been there and has always been an interest.”