Legendary announcer Al Michaels will be back to call NFL games on Prime Video in 2026

Al Michaels has been making play-by-play calls for prime-time NFL games for 40 years.

His adjacent crippled volition beryllium Saturday, erstwhile the Chicago Bears big the Green Bay Packers successful an NFC wild-card crippled connected Amazon Prime Video.

It won’t beryllium his last.

Michaels volition instrumentality to telephone games for Prime Video’s NFL sum adjacent season, the streaming work confirmed Friday. The 81-year-old Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer has been the play-by-play announcer for “Thursday Night Football,” with colour commentator Kirk Herbstreit, since Prime Video acquired the rights to those games starting successful the 2022 season.

After initially receiving a three-year woody from Amazon, which expired aft 2024, Michaels reportedly worked this play nether a one-year deal. Michaels told Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina successful November that helium would beryllium blessed to instrumentality successful 2026 if Amazon would person him.

“It’s a two-way thoroughfare here,” Michaels said. “They could archer me, ‘We got to determination on, it’s clip to marque a transition,’ each that. I don’t know, that could happen. But arsenic of the infinitesimal arsenic we beryllium present connected this mid-November afternoon, I consciousness truly good, inactive emotion what I bash and, again, enactment with a tremendous crew. So, yeah, I deliberation astatine this infinitesimal successful time, I would similar to continue, yes.”

One of Michaels’ archetypal jobs retired of assemblage was a precise little stint with the legendary Chick Hearn connected Lakers vigor broadcasts successful 1967. Since then, helium has gone connected to denote immoderate of the biggest moments successful sports history, including his signature “Do you judge successful miracles? Yes!” telephone of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s upset of the Soviet Union.

Michaels was the play-by-play dependable of ABC’s “Monday Night Football” from 1986 to 2005 and NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” from 2006 to 2021. He has called 11 Super Bowls, astir precocious connected Feb. 13, 2022, erstwhile the Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals astatine SoFi Stadium.