NBC removes Al Michaels from NFL playoff coverage, per report

[RockRaven]

5. When I've watched the games he's called the last couple of years, he

seems rather disinterested in actually doing the play by play which is supposed to be his job. I know the games often stink, but he's got the lowest rate of following the on-field action of any of the major announcing guys. Way too much talk about how he's been socializing with this or that owner/executive/former player, or gossipy shit about players/teams not involved in the game he's supposed to be narrating.

And when he does bother to do the play by play, he doesn't know the players' names -- outside of the star players -- at a rate which is unusually high relative to his past self and current co-workers.