Tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New Orleans Saints will be on Amazon Prime. Kickoff will be at 8:15 p.m. ET, and the pregame show starts at 7 p.m. ET. Who will be announcing the Week 7 matchup?
The Jaguars are up one game on the Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans in the AFC South. The Saints trail the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by half a game in the NFC South.
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Who Will Be Announcing the Jaguars-Saints Broadcast Tonight?
Al Michaels will be doing play-by-play, with Kirk Herbstreit providing analysis and Kaylee Hartung reporting from the sidelines.
Herbstreit, who is in his second season with Amazon Prime, has been one of the faces of college football on ESPN since the 1990s.
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He has been an analyst on College GameDay since 1996 and, in 2006, was added as a lead game analyst for ESPN and ABC. Herbstreit played quarterback at Ohio State from 1989 to 1992 and was the team’s starter and MVP as a senior.
Charissa Thompson hosts the pregame show that features former NFL players Richard Sherman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Whitworth, and Tony Gonzalez.
The Voice for Several Major Sports Moments
Michaels has been one of the main voices in sports broadcasting for over 40 years, working with ABC, NBC, and Amazon Prime.
His most famous call was “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” when the United States Olympic men’s national ice hockey team upset the Soviet Union in 1980. The game is considered to be one of the most important in American sports history, and his call is forever tied to the moment.
Michaels has been a play-by-play announcer for NFL prime-time games since 1986. He called Monday Night Football on ABC before moving to NBC for Sunday Night Football in 2006. Michaels joined Amazon Prime’s booth for Thursday Night Football last season.
Michaels is one of five broadcasters to win the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. The other four are Dick Enberg, Lindsey Nelson, Jack Buck, and Curt Gowdy.
Tuesday was the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in California. Michaels was calling the 1989 World Series game between the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants when Candlestick Park started to shake, and he mentioned they were experiencing an earthquake right before ABC briefly went off the air.
Michaels, who grew up in the area, played a major role in the network’s news coverage throughout the night as the devastating images of the earthquake were shown to the nation.
