@thesportsontap: Al Michaels is calling the Ravens and the Jaguars tonight, he is 81 years old, and he has never eaten a vegetable. Not as a bit. He means it. "I always pushed the vegetables away," he told Chris Wallace. "To this day, no." "And I guess what I've proven, Chris, is that man does not need vegetables to survive." He once bit into what he thought was a french fry and it was a brussels sprout. He told Pat McAfee it was so deep fried he could not tell. Here is the rest of him. He was born in Brooklyn on November 12, 1944. He turns 82 next Thursday. His first real job came in 1968, at 23 years old, calling Triple A baseball for the Hawaii Islanders. In 1980, at Lake Placid, he watched American college kids beat the Soviet Union at hockey. With five seconds left he asked the country a four word question about miracles, then answered it himself. Forty six years later people still say it back to him. On October 17, 1989, he was on the air at Candlestick Park before Game 3 of the World Series when the ground started moving. He got out the words "I'll tell you what, we're having an earthq" and the power went out. When it came back, he stopped being a sportscaster. He reported, live, for about eight hours, on a disaster that had just happened underneath a baseball game. He was nominated for an Emmy that year for news reporting. A sportscaster. He has called 10 Super Bowls. Twenty years on Monday Night Football. Sixteen on Sunday Night Football. This is his fifth season of Thursday nights for Prime Video. TONIGHT he is in Baltimore. Three weeks ago somebody asked how much longer he plans to do this. "I've done the NFL for 41 years, which is half my life," he said. "Love it." Then he said that at a certain time, it is time. "And if I feel it's time, I'll know it." And then, he says, he will thank them for the memories. Fifty eight years in a booth. Ten Super Bowls. One earthquake. Zero vegetables. #nfl #nflnews #nflfootball #ravens #jaguars

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