Al Michaels Offers Strange Correction After Saying Nfl 'wants To Take My Lunch Away'

There wasn't overmuch play during nan Chargers' 37-10 blowout triumph complete nan Vikings connected Thursday Night Football but Al Michaels did supply immoderate intermezo by dropping and past re-visiting an anecdote astir Minnesota kicker Will Reichard.

As Reichard lined up for a section extremity effort successful nan 2nd quarter, Michaels said that nan kicker's only erstwhile miss connected nan twelvemonth was erstwhile 1 of his boots deed a tv ligament against nan Browns successful a London game.

It was nan type of contextual statement that astir viewers forgot by nan clip a commercialized break came and went. But Michaels felt compelled to revisit it later during Reichard's adjacent involvement.

"The convention wants to return my luncheon distant because I said earlier that Reichard's only miss was hitting a ligament successful London," Michaels said. "The convention says, 'No, no, it was an optical illusion.'"

"That’s not what Reichard thinks," Michaels added. "Anyway, location you person it. We cleaned it up. I'm ever cleaning up our mess. My mess."

The ligament successful mobility did aliases did not impact what would person been a game-tying section extremity successful a crippled nan Vikings would spell connected to triumph anyway. At nan time, nan NFL said location was nary clear view to find that nan ball's formation had been impacted. Which is not nan aforesaid point arsenic saying thing was "an optical illusion" truthful Michaels' attempted explanation whitethorn person really made things much confusing.

Whatever behind-the-scenes machinations took spot earlier Michaels offered an mentation for thing he intelligibly didn't want to explain, nan extremity consequence is much group looking into whether a shot deed a ligament aliases not than ever would person cared without nan 2nd mention.

Again, nan Vikings won nan crippled successful question. Weeks ago. It didn't matter. But apparently it does.

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