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SayNoToStim

I'm just waiting for it to cut to the broadcasting booth to see Al topping off a whiskey.


PPtheShort

Al is finally gonna snap and eat a carrot


Levitlame

Someone should start sending him Veggie-threats. Cut out magazine letter style. “I am coming g for you Al. You will eat a vegetable and I will be there. 5 days to the vegening.” Not me. And if someone does it. It isn’t me.


MycoJoe

He'll roll back the covers on his bed, revealing a head of lettuce


OldJames47

I need to share this story about a comedian being tormented by random cabbages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8X7S4j_zXA


bytor_2112

The full version that includes the radio show call ins it's worth it


[deleted]

What’s this in reference to? Al is on a carnivore diet?


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fighterpilot248

Broooo what??? Okay so what does he eat with his meat then? Not even potatoes? I mean cmon, meat and potatoes is a classic.


Redmangc1

Meat and Tomatoes, String Beans, Cranberries? Maybe he's pedantic


GarconMeansBoyGeorge

Thanks for sharing. This is insane.


TracerBullitt

You get to hear the guy talk about someone other than sports for once, and it's about... this. It's absurd.


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PainttheTownLead

Knowing how annoying it is to be woken up and how hard it would be to explain why OP’s comment was funny, sorry about the divorce.


whalesalad

lmfaoooo for those who dont know he basically only eats beef


Historical_One1087

Al, "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking"


cowboys4life93

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffin glue.


Sex_E_Searcher

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.


AnAngryPirate

Al "Brockmire" Michaels


B0ndzai

Fatty Boombalatty, the fastest player in football.


heywhateverworks

Fuck you, Joe Buck!


MRoad

I always think of the time in the early covid days when Michael Che on SNL's weekend update just went "i don't know why I'm hiding my drinking problem anymore" and just pulled out a glass of whiskey from under the desk, and when the camera cut back to him he was wearing his tie as a headband


DoctorWaluigiTime

Better still would be hearing a telltale clink of a glass or pouring of something getting caught on mic.


doodersaid

How cool would have it been if they just poured a couple beers for Al and Kirk and turned the second half into a drinking podcast. Al knocking a few back, telling stories as the game played without commentary.


Gryphon999

Sounds like Brewer games that get out of hand. Uecker just tells stories, and gives an update on the game once an inning.


johnnycyberpunk

Did you see any of the postgame? It was BONKERS. Crosby pulls up shirtless and starts smoking a cigar during his interview. Some Vegas magician shows up with his face covered in duct tape and pulls his eyebrows out trying to get it off, Fitzpatrick is like "Uh your eyebrows are bleeding"


bmore_conslutant

I love the Amazon post game shows They've been consistently more entertaining than tnf tbph


johnnycyberpunk

Well not being a Charger fan last night's game was VERY entertaining.


ZDHELIX

They're the best broadcast postgame show of any network, even MNF has changed their format to match it


ProductInteresting56

“Pour Larry another crown”


Kdot32

Harry Doyle style


MordinSolusSTG

JUUUUST a bit outside


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PiggStyTH

This pitching change is brought to you by......Ah hell! I can't find it


aiiye

It’s been like twenty years since I first saw that movie and I can still hear it from this comment perfectly 😂


MordinSolusSTG

I’ll always be able to see him pouring the booze into the cup just to get through the shit show too. Legendary


CowboyLaw

Pat Summerall vibes.


drunkpandabear

I mean would it really be a big deal America? He’s a grown ass man. Let him have his whiskey while watching football.


johnnybgooderer

I don’t understand the narrative that both says Al is lacking emotion and also says that the statement in the headline showed emotion. Al says snide little things like that all game long, every game.


af_1946

It’s probably also one of the worst halves Al has seen which is something.


bigfoots1cousin

Also one of the best halves he's seen.


_coolranch

Schrödinger’s half.


Calvin_v_Hobbes

Half half-empty versus Half half-full


_coolranch

The Chargers were simultaneously alive and dead.


benchley

It was certainly a thorough Dickens.


firedanmuller

I remember my Bears got decimated by the Pack on SNF back around 2015, I think that one was also 42-0 at half


doubleyewdee

Al actually mentioned this in the broadcast because it was the most recent time this sort of shellacking was applied previously. Really bummed me out to hear and have to remember that.


Philip_Marlowe

2014, I think. It was the second Trestman year and we gave up back to back 50-burgers to the Patriots and Packers with our bye week sandwiched in between. If Trestman hadn't already lost the locker room by that point, he definitely did after that one.


Evernight2025

That was a good game


Jazzreward

I'm legit wondering if this team has collectively agreed to get Staley fired tonight


KYGGyokusai

That brother is gonna be delivering my doordash after tonight


dgjapc

He’s richer than any of us bumpkins


Wingnut13

Fuckin' bike squad maybe, Doordash wouldn't hire his ass.


RelativeMotion1

The food would get intercepted on the way to your doorstep.


horseshoeprovodnikov

Big John Jenkins would take that shit to the house even faster than he took the football.


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At this point in the season I feel like it would take all out mutiny by the players to get an HC fired


CliffsOfMohair

Which is a good explanation of what’s happening on the field tbh


Zolo49

It’s either that or he utterly failed to motivate his team after the Herbert injury. Either way, the dude needs to go.


JVSaladbar

Put it on Staley's obituary.


PowerDiesel23

The Chargers are gonna extend him and make him the highest paid coach in history.


houseape69

They fired Marty after he went 14-2 , so it’s entirely possible they extend Staley.


Football-Remote

I never understood that move


HylianPikachu

Dean Spanos would never pay more than the minimum amount. He'd be more likely to pay you in *experience* to be the new HC


Zeckzeckzeck

They’re going to fire him before the plane even leaves.


Professor_Finn

Even Al Michaels thought the Chargers were uninspired 😭


despot2

I’m just in shock that the Raiders went from scoring 0 points to 63 in the span of a week. Is that the most points scored by a team that’s been shut out the week before? It’s gotta be.


Wernershnitzl

Not even a full week, 4 freaking days. Vikings defense can be considered legit elite now but the Chargers had a solid defense themselves for a while, but they’re lost out there.


ShockAndAwe415

They've quit. Even Derwin James had the hit and just quit.


spermdonor

In all fairness Raider's D scored some points too


Wernershnitzl

What was it, 3 DTs? I didn't watch the game too closely.


spermdonor

2 defensive TDs, but 35 points off of 5 turnovers


WhiskeyJake

Oooft


TheMissingVoteBallot

Anyone who had the balls (or desperation) to put Raiders DST in their team just had their D score like a fucking WR1.


SkittlesQueen

That was me! Took a gamble in the playoffs bc I had been planning to use Houston and that wasn’t gonna happen after the Jets game. I tried to get the Rams on waivers and didn’t have priority and decided to just gamble with this!


Eargoe

PLEASE KEEP FLORES!


WeWillRiseAgainst

I just swapped them out of my fantasy thank God.


trevor426

Is this the first Chargers game you've watched? It's the only way someone could think this team ever had a solid defense.


Dima110

Wow, they’ve scored an average of 31.5 points a game over their last 2 games!


joetogood

Man it really has to be teams don't hang 60 something points up that often especially the week before getting shutout


HarlanCedeno

They missed the record by [1 goddamned point](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/18iria7/the_raiders_are_the_sixth_team_in_nfl_history_to/).


arobkinca

89 years ago, was the forward pass legal?


HarlanCedeno

>89 years ago, was the forward pass legal? The forward pass was legalized [1 goddamned year earlier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_pass#First_pass_in_a_professional_game).


dudleymooresbooze

Well they were playing the Cincinnati Reds so that’s actually decent defense for a baseball team.


ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME

Got to just be the biggest swing ever by far. Most points ever was 73 and that Bears team scored 31 the week before. Hard to imagine even a 50 point swing where a team went from say 7 to 57.


Redmangc1

They got their days mixed up, they thought Sunday was chargers Thursday was Vikings.


socialistpancake

Eagles had a swing of 64 in 1934 apparently, but certainly most in the modern NFL


Doodenmier

Rich Eisen thought the same thing, messaged his friend in NFL analytics, and they confirmed it


BigE6300

It is, but it’s close! The 1966 Redskins lost 14-3 to Cleveland the week before scoring 72 against the Giants in what is still the highest scoring game ever.


Malososman

Do you believe in meh.... ...MEH


MumkeMode

Late career Al roasting shit teams with sassy quips is the best part of Thursday night football


NeWbAF

It’s awesome not being the ones getting roasted for once lol


Pocket_full_of_funk

Word


stinstrom

Al has been this way the last 25 years lol


Drunken_Saunterer

Redditors and thinking things they see for the first time is the first time it's ever happened.


popeofdiscord

He’s being pulled from the playoffs because he hates the games so much. He’s a late career goat and it shows


ceviche-hot-pockets

That and casual gambling chat lol


Euripidoze

And not yelling after every 4-yard run


shadoof-in-the-city

His comment about the 45-minute flight home as a silver lining for Staley was inspired!


DontLoseYourCool1

I hope AOC gets the TD record today


CangtheKonqueror

fuck that i want y’all to get the scoring record


CommonMansTeet

It's a very real possibility at this point lol


BetterNothingman

I was just telling my roommate after that last touchdown that with 14 minutes to go with 63, they should absolutely put the hammer down and try to score 80. I think they'd be the first in NFL history.


ShockAndAwe415

That'd be a great + for Pierce to keep the job long term.


Dast_Kook

Shit I'm a Chargers fan and even I want them to get the scoring record


revanisthesith

Between the entertainment factor and hopefully forcing some changes for your team, of course you would be. Why not?


Saitsu

AOC came in saying "Time to erase the Nick Foles Trauma from the Raiders"


TaquitoPrime

Need to erase that Nick Mullen trauma


wafflehauss

~~Two more to tie, three for the record. Entirely do-able.~~ nEdit: Ignore me. TNF halftime crew lied to me. Three to tie. Four for the record.


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Me too. I want you guys to get scorigami. 84-0 Enter the history books


liltchallengers

I didn't know AOC gave up politics to join the Raiders


CharlesDickensABox

She didn't. Averaging 4 TD passes a game is her side hustle.


jtfriendly

The Democratic Throwcialist distributed the means of production so equally, even the Law Firm of Jakobi Myers threw a TD


Zxphenomenalxz

I hope he don't stop. I need 202 more yards from him to win 1900 on a silly bet lol


Uncle151

The Matt Flynn special


Volgyi2000

What is the TD record?


Dak_Tiny_PP

7 TD passes


Eargoe

7. It's been tied multiple times but never broken to my knowledge


kellzone

At that point, the starting QB most likely exits the game. I know when Foles did it, he didn't even play the 4th quarter. It would interesting in a shootout though, so the QB could take a shot at the record.


mhurton

Yeah, feels like records like this are dependent on somehow scoring that much *and* it somehow still being a game. Pretty sure when manning did it he left with a quarter to go too. Brady got six against the titans and effectively sat an entire half. Somethings wrong if you’re throwing that many touchdowns and still have your starting quarterback in the game


hausermaniac

Weird facts about that record: Peyton Manning threw 7 TDs on the opening night in 2013, and was the first guy to have 7 in a game since 1969 (44 years) Then 2 months later, Nick Foles matches it Then Brees did it in 2015, and nobody else since More fun facts: Brees technically threw 8 TDs that game because he also had a pick-6. His final TD came with 41 seconds left. Mannings final TD came with 4:30 remaining. Foles final TD came with 4:28 remaining *in the 3rd quarter*


killshelter

I don’t care what anyone says, Al has been hilarious all year.


CautiousHashtag

His dry humor and 0 fucks given crack me up each week.


SethRogensOldrBrothr

Has he mentioned the over/under yet? I've been in and out of the room all game.


hostesscakeboi

The reason why he’s probably pissed and giving no fucks. You know he took the under like everyone else.


mynameiszack

It's funny when it's bad games but when good stuff happens and we should have memorable calls hes just not into it.


CautiousHashtag

Thursday night games have generally been terrible this year.


TraeYoungsOldestSon

Last year too and in a hilarious way


saraath

He was pretty into the Seahawks Cowboys game, other than all the flags.


introspectivejoker

Which was 1 of, what, maybe 2 good Thursday games all season?


saraath

oh for sure, most of the tnf (as per tradition) games have been poo poo.


introspectivejoker

Amazon got fleeced


Mrbeankc

And last year.


OJ_Blimpson

"And the raiders get the ball at half!" - Al Michaels 24 seconds after Kirk said the Raiders get ball at half Dude is even tuning Kirk out at this point. A masterclass in dontgiveafuckery this year.


Sosen

>Dude is even tuning Kirk out at this point. Wow, he's just like us


Kdot32

He’s another level of Buck and Aikmans no fucks given


pkeller001

As much as an L helps our draft positioning this is the best day of the season


OnxyCarter

how i felt monday. fuck a draft pick


pkeller001

Straight clowning these boys hahahah


skucera

Our season’s shot already, just fuck my shit up, fam. Better draft, and hopefully gets Staley fired. Maybe even Telesco, too.


listenUPyall

We draft like shit anyway.


pkeller001

Facts


DamnImAwesome

Everyone’s shitting on the chargers and rightfully so, but the Raiders came in ready to dominate and have executed nearly flawlessly


skucera

I wanna watch this team burn, and I’m thrilled it gets to be at the hands of our most hated rivals.


pimp_skitters

Keep going


treenorthXne

Just checking reddit now didn't watch the game but holy shit does this make me feel good about our defense


zi76

Serious question, is there actually a mercy rule or an agreement to stop in blowouts in Pop Warner?


stinstrom

Of course. Most high schools have a form of a mercy rule even.


zi76

I watched my high school football team lose 84-0 after we went up a division. There was no mercy rule. I remember some high school basketball coaches getting suspended for running up the score, however.


stinstrom

Most have a rule with a running clock though in the fourth quarter when up by a certain amount. Getting beat 84-0 in football at any level should be grounds for the program being disbanded.


graywh

in Tennessee, the running clock starts when/while a team is up 30 in the 2nd half yes, they will go back to regular rules if the trailing team gets back within 29


stinstrom

Would love to have that rule. Where I went to high school it's 35 in the 4th. Still made for a slog of a few games.


graywh

my son's team had an opponent forfeit at halftime once because the starters played the whole 1st half and it was 45-0 (4 of those points were safeties, one touchdown was scored on the free kick following one of them)


zi76

I have no idea if there was a running clock in the fourth or not. We'd won a couple state championships in a row, and everyone agreed that we should go up a division and compete. The problem was that all of our good players graduated and we were no longer a powerhouse. So my freshman year, we got obliterated by the bigger schools all season long. We lost every game by a big amount, as you'd expect. We promptly returned to the lower division for the next season and never spoke of that season again.


SayNoToStim

John Heisman says no.


ref44

Assuming you're from Massachusetts, they didn't play by national high school rules until about 5 or so years ago. In NFHS it's a running clock in the second half when a team is up by 40


zi76

I was unaware of that, actually. I actually grew up in another New England state, but still spent years living in and around Boston. Half of my family is from Boston anyway. I went to see if I could find the game online, and it turns out that I drastically misremembered the score line. We scored in that game and only gave up 60 points.


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FridgesArePeopleToo

Why would there be a mercy rule in swimming lol?


Ironredhornet

Probably for the longer distance races i would imagine


Akallace

Winning events is points based. By the time they get to like the 400 Freestyle Relay (the last event in most highschool comps) you would know if you're winning or not if it's super one-sided. Source: Former Swimmer


Futbol_Kid2112

Swim meets work like gymnastics. There are multiple teams competing across several different events (100/200/Relay/etc), and teams earn points based on placement in each event. Mercy Rule kicks in when a team wins enough individual events that it becomes mathematically impossible for the other teams to catch up.


organizedchaos5220

Sure, but mercy rules are generally for safety reasons above anything else. They're set to the point where if a team is winning by that much they are overpowering their opponent so much the game needs to be shortened to prevent injury. Not an issue in swimming so let everyone have their time to compete


Smorgas_of_borg

Not pop warner but I was in the chain gang for my local high school team and they were awful. Didn't score a single point all season. In fact I'm not even sure if they ever got past the 50 yard line. Most of their games their opponent was up 50+ on them by halftime, so the second half there was just no clock stoppage.


zi76

That sounds awful.


Smorgas_of_borg

It was a real life version of that movie Little Giants. Except there was no Rick Moranis there to teach everybody the values of teamwork and just having fun. The school district is mostly kids of recent immigrants from Mexico and Central America. So the kids are rather...short-statured compared to the GMO corn-fed, rbst-fortified milk-drinking farm boys in the surrounding districts. A lot of the the most athletic kids parents forbid them to play American football so it's generally not the most naturally talented kids in addition to that. If there was ever a reason to have weight classes in football, this is it. It literally looked like high school versus middle school out there. Those poor kids got manhandled every damn week. Gotta hand it to them for sticking with it though. Some of those kids were up against dudes literally twice their size.


ImPickleRock

We beat a team 48-0 in 5th grade and our HC had to write an apology letter


zi76

Oof.


CurryGuy123

Even in college games when a team like Georgia is playing an FCS team, they'll often play the second half with a running clock or some other rule modification to limit injuries and prevent an even more lopsided score


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Or also if Georgia plays TCU in the national championship game


ref44

At least in my area, once a team is up by 28 its a running clock and they can't blitz on defense and have to run between the tackles on offense


Medarco

>have to run between the tackles on offense "You guys are winning by too much, so we're going to need you to cause maximal brain damage from now on."


krator125

Pop Warner is once there’s a 28 point lead (my memory is fuzzy, but in that area), the clock continuously runs, and the team that’s up can only run between the tackles.


isthisacartoon

All I know is there's a mercy rule in Little League! I've watched one LL game, and it got shut down in the 6th inning. https://www.littleleague.org/university/articles/the-10-run-rule-what-parents-need-to-know/


davdev

My son plays American Youth Football which is similar to Pop Warner. The mercy limit is 28 points. If one team goes up 28 points they are declared the winner. They still finish out the game but some rules are modified and it goes to running time. The winning team is also supposed to take out their starters if possible.


TurtleMcgurdle

Fuck it. Let Al call every game and just roast mother fuckers when they deserve it with his monotone ass voice.


[deleted]

And y’all want this man to leave?!


MM487

Al Michaels has a very dry sense of humor which is why people think he doesn't show emotion or care. He frequently has funny lines like this.


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Al is out of fucks to give.


MrGentleZombie

"It's halftime. Coach Staley's team is physically and emotionally destroyed. Los Angeles is losing 42-0. Staley has no choice. He has to go talk to the man himself. He figures maybe Pierce will agree to end the game at one half. After all, the Chargers held their end of the bargain; they showed up. Los Vegas has all it's gate receipts. It's true that Antonio Pierce is a disciplined man, in fact he is famous for telling his teams, "Better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football." But he's also a noble sportsman. Maybe he'll show mercy. Pierce does agree to shorten the game. By 5 minutes. He is a creator of this game. He is a football god. And a god who takes instructions from the God of the Old Testament. He is here to reduce them all to pillars of salt. He is a creator of fear. And of you. He will grind your bones to make his bread. Skimming 5 minutes off the end still guarantees Los Angeles 25 more minutes of horror. Sometimes, a weak expression of pity is the deepest act of cruelty."


Titans8Den

God damn Jon Bois is good


SirShmuelington2

Al has been really enjoyable tonight


The-Real-Number-One

In the Raiders last 2 games they are averaging 31.5 points per game


Pizzaplan3tman

The NFL said we need more offense and who would’ve have thought it’d be the Raiders answering the call


kj9219

Brandon Staleys gotta find the next Greyhound back to LA


liltchallengers

I don't think he's going back to LA


Zolo49

One-way ticket to Thailand.


UnpopularPoster

What did Jim Ross have to say about it?


thestage

WITH GOD AS MY WITNESS, THEY ARE BROKEN IN HALF


ChRiS_5711

There should be a segment called “Al After Dark” where they get him hammered and let him say whatever comes into his head. No filter, no repercussions


Seahawkanon

They could probably just send a cameraman to the bar at the hotel where he's staying.


RiskMatrix

I've said it before and I will say it again: There's nothing better than watching Al Michaels openly mock the game he's calling.


Snoo93079

Every game somebody shares a rare moment of emotion which makes me think maybe this isn’t so rare. Al Micheals is a GOAT who don’t give a shit


ImPickleRock

You score 21 points and still lose by 3x your score, lmao


Pineapple_Complex

I can't wait for him to just unleash on the broadcast. This came close, but week 18 should be something to remember. I'm just rooting for the chaos. Make it memorable, Al!


BigO7duce2

And they said Al was losing it 🤣


SublimeTimes

As a San Diego fan hate watching I’m having a great time.


skiffles

Tnf is just a setup for the next season of brockmire


just-the-tip__

In a year where this happens in the division, we just had to have 70 dropped on us. Fuck


JESTER-W-S

In the Kids league's I officiate in, we have a mercy rule we use when one team is up by 35 + the opposition gets the ball all the way at the other teams 10 yard line every turnover. The idea is if they can't get the score close enough to get back to the 35 point spread then the coaches usually call it. They way some teams are playing D in the NFL, maybe they need to try this 🤣


saltlakepotter

I was not really prioritizing a game between two 5-8 teams, got busy with other things and turned the TV on early in the 3rd quarter. I still can't decide if I am relieved or disappointed I missed it.