Al Michaels Should Be Banned From Calling Playoff Games After He Insulted Everyone With A Brain Who Made Fun Of His Awful Jags/Chargers Call

[Source] - “Look, sometimes I’ll take some ****,” said Michaels. “People say, ‘He didn’t get excited enough.’ What do you want me to do? Scream, holler, yell the game? That ain’t me. That ain’t [Joe] Buck, that ain’t [Jim] Nantz. I can’t pay attention to anti–social media. We live in a country with 330 million people. And if eight people rip you on social media, I’m going, ‘Huh?’ Now anybody sitting in a basement has a platform. You can’t let things like that distress you. I’ve been doing this for so long. And I wouldn’t be here at this point still doing a major package if I was doing it the wrong way.”

By all accounts Al Michaels is a legend, but even if you're a legend there's a time to hang it up. We typically talk about that with athletes, but it works for announcers too. Al Michaels and Tony Dungy put together one of the absolute worst, boring, nap-inducing calls of all time. Not even that, it was during one of the best games we've seen in the playoffs. Massive comeback, massive choke, big plays down the stretch and we got them two yawning in the booth. Don't believe me? Here's our leader telling it how it is: 

'Here we go, for the win.' That's it! That was the call Michaels had for this ridiculous comeback. And his defense? Oh he doesn't yell and people are mad live in basements. Uhh first of all, we have houses. Second of all, the moment you go to the basement comment you've lost. It's the easiest way to tell you're rattled and have no rational comeback. You lost. You had a garbage ass call. It happens. Defending it isn't how you win people over. You say you fucked up, you took Caron Butler and Emeka Okafor, and move on. 

This is the man who gave us arguably the greatest call in sports history with the Miracle on Ice. We're not saying you have to scream, just show you're alive. Show that you're awake! Give us something. This was playoff football. This was the Jaguars winning a playoff game! There's a line between Gus and whatever the fuck Dungy and Michaels gave us. Just get there. Until you do, banned! That's the only way to react. I can't sit through another playoff game where two guys are in the booth sleeping.