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| Al Michaels |
...or maybe he is learning the hard way.
The great sports broadcaster Al Michaels said in an April interview that during the 2019 season, he made a 43,000-1 wager that Tom Brady wouldn't leave the New England Patriots.
Specifically, the bet was that if Brady stayed with the Patriots he would win $2.00, if Brady moved on, he would have to pay up $86,000.
Michaels made the bet against NBC sports researcher Andy Freeland.
Brady left the Patriots for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Michaels says he will pay up: "It will be installment payments of about $3 per year."
-RW
You call him the GREAT Al Michaels, and he is.
ReplyDeleteHe made two of the greatest calls in sports broadcasting:
1. (on the occasion of the US hockey team beating the invincible Russians),
"Do you believe in miracles??"
2. World Series 1989: "There's an Earth....."
Great broadcaster, bad gambler.