Michaels resolved the elephant in the room at the top of the broadcast.
There was a noticeable various Sunday night when Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya took the air to call the video game in between the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles.
” No we are not auditioning for the Masked Singer,” Michaels quipped. “Santa Clara County authorities have obliged us to use a mask during the game and so that is the story.”
The trio was using masks.
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There had actually been 4 previous broadcasts by Michaels, Collinsworth and Tafoya in which the ensemble were not using masks. The announcers had currently been in Kansas City, Mo., Los Angeles, Seattle and New Orleans without masks in the cubicle before relocating to Santa Clara, Calif., for the 49ers-Eagles matchup.
Collinsworth didnt seem too delighted with needing to wear the mask. As Michaels introduced his broadcast partner, Collinsworth said: “I dont know who I am.”
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Michaels reminded Collinsworth to annunciate throughout the ballgame.
Santa Clara County has actually seen a total of 21,840 coronavirus cases and 334 deaths because the pandemic began in March. According to Santa Clara County Public Health, the county sees about 102 new cases weekly.
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The NFL also needed to deal with a break out on the Tennessee Titans recently and a minimum of one gamer on the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs. Several games were postponed as the league moved schedules.
