![]() ![]() “And now I’m invested and I can do my job more effectively because I’m gonna be glued to the TV. So you’re like alright I need to do my job tonight, and I’m tired I want to go to bed, but maybe I’ll just throw a couple hundred bucks on the Jaguars,” Long said. “I’m not even gonna lie, dude, sometimes you get burned out by football, right? I played it for a long time, now I’m covering it. He said it’s definitely helped with his show. Long added that having that wagering itch definitely keeps him enthralled in watching football all day like a lot of other NFL fans, even those games people generally think won’t be that good competitively ahead of time. I’m really interested in the artform of gambling if that makes any sense.” “I don’t want to just throw stuff out there because I’m getting paid by a casino. “I want to be responsible and give out good picks,” Long said. It’s helped him when talking about gambling on his own podcast, Green Light with Chris Long. ![]() Long, who is not that far removed from his playing days in the league, was a guest on The Jim Rome Podcast, and said he initially considered gambling on football as something to compete at after retiring.īut now that he’s had some time to better learn the ins and outs of wagering, he’s become wiser and better informed. Placing bets on NFL games adds a whole other layer to the NFL viewing experience, and Super Bowl champion Chris Long understands that. ![]() “Sometimes you want to watch the game as the game.” “You have to go back and watch the game, too,” Michaels said. He also said that eventually, the game is the star and people will come back to it. He went on to say that he believes in the “Big Top” theory when it comes to the alternate broadcasts. Michaels was teasing with the Dude Perfect comment because when asked about alternate feeds, he had no problems with them in general. “But if I see that Dude Perfect on the alternate feed out rates us one night, I’m done. “The only fear I have with going into this package, and Nielsen is going to rate everything now for the first time ever, so I’m a little nervous about that and I don’t know how that’s going to work out,” said Michaels. Michaels then told Traina that he does have one fear about doing the Amazon Thursday Night Football package but it has nothing to do with the presentation from the main game. Michaels, speaking to Jimmy Traina on the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast, talked about how comfortable he is with Kirk Herbstreit and that he trusts the game’s producer Fred Gaudelli, but he knows people are going to struggle at first to find the game. 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. ![]()
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