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Article: MONDAY-NIGHT HARMONY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 9, 1988
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Have you lingered lately watching "Monday Night Football"
telecasts after the game has been decided?
If so, credit the trio of announcers, who may be legitimizing
the concept of three-in-a-booth, a concept almost everyone disowned
after its creator, Roone Arledge, left sports.
Al Michaels, Dan Dierdorf and Frank Gifford are a winning
broadcast team for obvious reasons. Michaels is a superior
play-by-play man, delivering the facts and -- no minor quality --
smoothly sharing the microphone with two men.
He also makes comments that emerge as rhetorical questions
that invite Dierdorf and Gifford to respond if they choose, which
Dierdorf invariably does. Michaels also provides statistics ...