Take one great from NBC Sports and pluck another from FOX Sports and you have what Amazon thinks would be a dream booth for its Thursday Night Football broadcasts.
According to Front Office Sports, Amazon is looking to pair Al Michaels with Troy Aikman when it begins broadcasting Thursday night games.
Amazon will pay $1 billion a year for 11 years for exclusive rights for Thursday Night Football beginning next season.
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If Amazon is able to land Aikman, the Pro Football Hall of Famer would likely team with play-by-play announcer Al Michaels to form a “‘TNF’ dream team,” said sources.
The duo would deliver instant gravitas for Amazon as the tech giant launches the NFL’s first-ever all-digital package.
Michaels currently does play-by-play on Sunday Night Football with Cris Collinsworth as his analyst.
Meanwhile, the Hall of Famer Aikman has been teamed for years with play-by-play great Joe Buck. They currently do both Thursday night games as well as the biggest game FOX has on Sundays.
A tag-team of Michaels and Aikman already has one person believing it would be a highlight.
Eric Weinberger, the former executive vice president of NFL Network, believes an Aikman-Michaels TV booth could be the best in the business.
“They would be phenomenal. It would be the gold standard of the National Football League,” Weinberger said.