The New York Jets visit the Cleveland Browns on Amazon Prime’s Thursday Night Football. With a win, the Browns can secure a playoff spot under head coach Kevin Stefanski, who is in his fourth season.
New York is 6-9 and finishing up a season that started with high hopes after adding Aaron Rodgers, who was lost for the season after tearing his Achilles in the first quarter of the opening game. Rodgers is on the active roster but will not play in the last two games of the season.
Kickoff is at 8:15 p.m. ET, while the pregame show starts at 7 p.m. But who will be announcing the Week 17 matchup?
Who Will Be Announcing the Jets-Browns Broadcast Tonight?
Al Michaels will be doing play-by-play, Kirk Herbstreit is providing analysis, and Kaylee Hartung is reporting from the sidelines.
Michaels joined Amazon Prime in 2022 and has been broadcasting a weekly prime-time NFL game since 1986. He called Monday Night Football on ABC from 1986 to 2005 before moving to NBC’s Sunday Night Football in 2006.
Michaels was NBC’s play-by-play announcer for Super Bowl LVI in February 2022. It was his 11th Super Bowl play-by-play assignment, tying Pat Summerall for the most ever.
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Herbstreit, who is in his second season with Amazon Prime, has been one of the faces of college football on ESPN since the 1990s. He played quarterback at Ohio State from 1989 to 1992 and was the team’s starter and MVP as a senior.
Hartung has worked with ESPN, the Longhorn Network, the SEC Network, CNN, and ABC during her career. She is currently a contributing correspondent for NBC’s “TODAY Show.”
Charissa Thompson hosts the pregame show that features former NFL players Richard Sherman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Whitworth, and Tony Gonzalez.
Season 2 of Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime is finishing up the second season of Thursday Night Football after signing an 11-year deal worth $11 billion. Amazon also paid the NFL an additional $100 million to broadcast a game this season on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
The NFL added a new option this season to allow the league to flex out a Thursday game for a better matchup. This was added as a one-year trial, along with the ability to flex a Monday Night Football game on ESPN. There were no changes made to the Thursday night schedule, and one Monday game was changed this season.
Michaels, who turned 79 in November, has one year remaining on his deal with Amazon. He told the New York Post last month that he plans on announcing Thursday night games. Michaels said, “As far as I’m concerned, I’m doing next year. There’s no question about that in my mind.”
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