解说传奇迈克尔斯直播讲四分钟「睡前故事」引热议：口误连连，有人喊退休有人说比比赛好看
位于马里兰州巴尔的摩市的M&T银行体育场（M&T Bank Stadium）11月5日晚举行「周四夜赛」（Thursday Night Football），杰克逊维尔美洲虎队客场以33比10大胜巴尔的摩乌鸦队。比赛本身一边倒，赛后在社交平台上疯传的却是81岁传奇解说员阿尔·迈克尔斯（Al Michaels）在直播席上的一段插话：他在第四节讲了四分多钟的故事，自己收尾时笑称，这就是他的「睡前故事」（bedtime story）。
据 Awful Announcing 发布的直播片段，第四节初美洲虎队已以23比3领先，迈克尔斯对搭档柯克·赫布斯特赖特（Kirk Herbstreit）说：「我有个不错的睡前故事要讲给你听，人人都喜欢睡前故事。」他随后讲起美洲虎队首任主教练汤姆·科夫林（Tom Coughlin）当年如何得到这份工作：科夫林当时执教波士顿学院，接到一通来历不明的电话，一度以为是本地车商想卖他一辆捷豹汽车，回电才知道对方是美洲虎队运营总监戴维·塞尔丁（David Seldin）；塞尔丁说候选人有五位时科夫林回绝、减到两位时才答应面试，最终成为球队首任主教练，并在1996赛季带队打进美联冠军赛。故事中途被美洲虎队球员乔丹·刘易斯（Jourdan Lewis）的一次抄截打断约十秒，迈克尔斯随即接回话题讲完，最后说：「好了，这就是睡前故事，被一次抄截打断了，除此之外没什么。」转播进入广告时段时，制作方还配上了奥尔曼兄弟乐队的《Ramblin' Man》。
这段插话不是迈克尔斯当晚唯一的失误。比赛第一节美洲虎队首次进攻时，他把四分卫特雷弗·劳伦斯（Trevor Lawrence）的选秀年份说成了2001年，正确年份是2021年；talkSPORT 还指出，他一度暗示乌鸦队踢球手杰克·穆迪（Jake Moody）2025赛季效力过绿湾包装工队，而穆迪并没有。Pro Football Network 指出，他在第7周还曾把芝加哥熊队与新英格兰爱国者队的两名四分卫说成「2014届」。Awful Announcing 11月6日在X上发布的「睡前故事」片段迅速扩散，talkSPORT、Yardbarker、Total Pro Sports等多家体育媒体跟进报道。
网上的反应分成两派。一派毫不留情：有球迷写道「这哥们该退休了，太无聊了」，电台主持人凯尔·马德森（Kyle Madson）写道，迈克尔斯自2018年以来解说的每场比赛「都已经不在状态」。另一派却觉得这一幕好笑又有人情味：有球迷说，他对抄截打断故事的那点「不满」太好笑了，「是巅峰状态的阿尔·迈克尔斯」；还有人说这个故事「说实话比比赛本身还有意思」，也有人打趣说自己本来关了电视，「现在后悔了，因为我想听睡前故事」。
迈克尔斯生于1944年11月12日，下周将满82岁。他是1980年「冰上奇迹」美国冰球队击败苏联队一役的解说声音，1986年至2005年担任ABC「周一夜赛」主解说，2006年至2021年担任NBC「周日夜赛」主解说，2022年起转投 Prime Video 的「周四夜赛」，本季是他在该平台的第五个赛季；他解说过的超级碗达11场、黄金时段NFL比赛超过770场。据 Pro Football Network 报道，他今年10月在《丹·帕特里克秀》上曾表示，自己会知道何时该退休，或者雇主会告诉他。截至发稿，迈克尔斯本人与 Prime Video 均未就当晚的片段公开回应。
Broadcast Legend Al Michaels Tells a Four-Minute 'Bedtime Story' on Live TV: Errors Fuel Retirement Calls as Other Fans Say It Beat the Game
M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, hosted Thursday Night Football on the night of November 5, with the Jacksonville Jaguars beating the Baltimore Ravens 33-10 on the road. The game itself was one-sided, and what spread across social media afterward was a detour by 81-year-old legendary play-by-play announcer Al Michaels in the Prime Video booth: in the fourth quarter he told a story lasting more than four minutes, and as he wrapped it up he laughed and called it his "bedtime story."
According to the broadcast clip posted by Awful Announcing, Jacksonville led 23-3 early in the fourth quarter when Michaels told color commentator Kirk Herbstreit: "I've got a good bedtime story coming up for you. Everybody likes a bedtime story, a good one." He then told how Tom Coughlin became the Jaguars' first head coach: Coughlin, then coaching Boston College, got a message he could not place and thought a local dealer was trying to sell him a Jaguar car, only to learn on calling back that it was Jaguars chief operating officer David Seldin. When Seldin said five candidates were in mind, Coughlin declined; when the list was down to two, he agreed to interview, became the team's first head coach, and took Jacksonville to the AFC Championship Game in the 1996 season. The story was interrupted for about 10 seconds by an interception by Jaguars defensive back Jourdan Lewis, after which Michaels picked the thread back up and finished: "Anyway, there's your bedtime story. Interrupted by an interception, but apart from that." As the broadcast went to a break, the production played "Ramblin' Man" by the Allman Brothers Band.
The detour was not Michaels' only error of the night. On Jacksonville's first possession he gave quarterback Trevor Lawrence's draft year as 2001; the correct year is 2021. talkSPORT also noted that he at one point implied Ravens kicker Jake Moody had played for the Green Bay Packers in 2025, which Moody never did. Pro Football Network noted that in Week 7 he had also referred to the Chicago Bears' and New England Patriots' quarterbacks as being from the "class of 2014." Awful Announcing's X post of the "bedtime story" clip on November 6 spread quickly, and talkSPORT, Yardbarker, Total Pro Sports and other sports outlets followed with reports.
Online reaction split in two. One side was unsparing: one fan wrote, "Dude needs to retire. So incredibly boring," and radio host Kyle Madson wrote that Michaels has been "so over" every game he has broadcast since 2018. The other side found the moment funny and human: one fan said his annoyance at the interception interrupting the story was hilarious and "peak Al Michaels"; another said the story "was more interesting than the game, honestly"; and another joked, "I turned it off. Now I wish I hadn't, because I wanna hear a bedtime story."
Michaels was born on November 12, 1944, and turns 82 next week. He was the broadcast voice of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice," when the U.S. men's hockey team beat the Soviet Union; he was ABC's lead Monday Night Football announcer from 1986 to 2005 and NBC's Sunday Night Football announcer from 2006 to 2021, before joining Prime Video's Thursday Night Football in 2022, where this is his fifth season. He has called 11 Super Bowls and more than 770 NFL prime-time games. According to Pro Football Network, he said on The Dan Patrick Show in October that he would know when it was time to retire, or his employers would tell him. As of publication, neither Michaels nor Prime Video had publicly responded to the clip.
来源：Awful Announcing的X帖文
发布：GSM·美国（发布链接）
图片来源：阿尔·迈克尔斯本人资料图（Keith Allison摄于2017年，CC BY-SA 2.0，经Wikimedia Commons），非本次事件现场图
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