“Swifties” Are Taking Credit For Al Michaels Getting Removed From NBC’s NFL Playoff Coverage

Taylor Swift fans, known as “Swifties” are taking credit for NBC’s surprising decision to remove Al Michaels from their NFL postseason coverage.

Earlier this week, Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reported that NBC was dropping Michaels from its playoff coverage in favor of Noah Eagle (the son of CBS Sports’ Ian Eagle) and Todd Blackledge.

Though Michaels’ full-time run with NBC ended after the 2021 season, the network brought the Amazon Prime Video “Thursday Night Football” commentator back to call the Los Angeles Chargers-Jacksonville Jagguars Wild Card Game last year.

There is growing speculation that NBC opted against bringing back Michaels because of comments he made about Swift before a Denver Broncos-Kansas City Chiefs TNF broadcast back in October. Swift is in a relationship with Chiefs superstar tight end Travis Kelce.

𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: TNF broadcaster Al Michaels says that “you can’t make a sideshow THE show” when talking about the broadcast’s coverage of Taylor Swift tonight, via @SInow

The crew is planning to only cover Taylor Swift “in moderation” because people are indeed tuning in to… pic.twitter.com/iLL1zDpBJ8

— JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) October 12, 2023

On social media, “Swifties” are now taking credit in Michaels getting dropped from the network that he spent 16 years with (2006 to 2021):

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Swifties got Al Michaels @NFL

— Muskrat aka HoHo (@CMusky4213) December 13, 2023

They saying Taylor Swift and her Swifties got Al Michaels canceled for the playoffs?? They/she got that kind of power?!

— America’s Team!!! ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@StunninW) December 14, 2023

Rumors have been going around saying that Al Michaels was removed from the NBC playoff covrege due to his comments referring to Taylor Swift,

He said “You can't make the sideshow the show” pic.twitter.com/31ZEhVJxSR

— Sportsville (@Sportsville_) December 16, 2023

BTW – it seems that Al Michaels lost his job for offending the Swifties.

— Terri Gierer 🇺🇸 (@TriTerriG) December 15, 2023