Al Michaels eats a full fine-dining steak meal during the eight-minute halftime of Thursday Night Football
This dude, we get to halftime... He's got like steak, oh like shrimp. He doesn't touch the mashed potatoes but... they got real silverware and they got a plate and then, you know, you only have eight minutes at halftime in the NFL... Headphones are off back behind that screen and they got a table set and it's like fine dining for eight minutes and it's just, you know, he's eating and talking and yeah, it blew me away.
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The AFC Championship Game should be played at a neutral site in Detroit
Let's be honest, the answer is Detroit. Because it's always Detroit for these games. And then we'd also have the joke of like, this team has won more games in Detroit—playoff games in Detroit—than Detroit in the last 30 years. You just gotta always fall back to what is the trivia answer that would hurt Detroit the most.
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Steve Smith should be a hall of famer. He should make it, he's like eighth all time in receiving yards. I think he's top 15 in touchdowns. But here's the stat that really should put him in... There's only four guys who have won the triple crown... Sterling Sharpe with Brett Favre, Jerry Rice with Joe Montana, Cooper Kupp last year, and then Steve Smith with Jake Delhomme. That tells you how good he is.
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