Why is Al Michaels calling NBCs Jaguars

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As the NFL playoffs get underway this weekend, a legendary voice will make a return to his former network.Al Michaels will be back in the commentator's booth for NBC on Saturday night as he teams up with Tony Dungy to call Jaguars vs. Treveon Graham Jersey Chargers in primetime.Michaels has been calling NFL games throughout 2022, but it has been as the lead voice for Amazon Prime Video's "Thursday Night Football" broadcast. This marks the first time he's returned to NBC, where he served as the play-by-play man on "Sunday Night Football" for 16 years between 2006 and 2021.MORE: He'll be joined by Dungy, who has served as a studio analyst for NBC since he retired from coaching. Michaels left his full-time role at NBC to become the play-by-play voice of Amazon's "Thursday Night Football" broadcasts at the end of last season. However, NBC announced in May that he would stay on in an "emeritus" role and would call at least one NFL playoff game for NBC this postseason.Im looking forward to continuing my longtime NBC relationship while also launching the package on Amazon this fall," Michaels said in a . "A Bruno Fernando Jersey special thanks to NBC Sports Chairman Pete Bevacqua and the folks at NBCUniversal for their help in making this happen.The 2022 season marked Michael' Evan Turner Jersey s 37th campaign calling the NFL in primetime. He has also called 11 Super Bowls, tied for the most all-time withformer CBS and FOX announcer Pat Summerall.MORE: Instead of teaming back up with his most recent announcing partner, Kirk Herbstreit, Michaels will be joined in the booth by longtime NFL head coach Tony Dungy. Herbstreit has partnered with Michaels on "Thursday Night Football" throughout this season, but he can't call games for NBC as he is contracted to Amazon and ESPN.Dungy will return to commentary duties for the second time this season, with the first during NBC's broadcast of Patriots vs. Vikings. Saturday night will be the fifth time he's called a game for NBC. He normally serves as a studio Bogdan Bogdanovic Jersey analyst during "Football Night in America" and on NBC's pregame and postgame shows on Sunday nights.The two will take the call from Jacksonville, Fla. as the No. 4 seeded Jaguars host the No. 5 seeded Chargers. It's an enticing matchup featuring two of the most exciting young quarterbacks in the NFL: Trevor Lawrence and Justin Herbert. The game is scheduled to kick off at 8:15 p.m. ET. Cris Collinsworth will be in Cincinnati for NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcast between the Bengals and Ravens. He'll provide Steve Smith Jersey color commentary alongside Mike Tirico, who replaced Michaels as the lead voice of SNF. It's po sible that Collinsworth could have called both Saturday night's game in Jacksonville and Sunday's in Cincinnati, but NBC likely opted to keep the pairing of Michaels and Collinsworth separate from an optics perspective. Additionally, in Week 1, Collinsworth called two games in four days and lost his voice.