
This segment originally aired live on November 19, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on January 1, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.
Al Michaels, a sportscaster who has covered 8 Olympics and now does play-by-play for NBC's Sunday Night Football, and the author (with L. Jon Wertheim) of You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television (William Morrow, 2014), talks about growing up in Brooklyn and looks back on the legends he's worked with and covered and the legendary games he's called.