"If he had, he would have called in sick for Thursday night's Raiders-Broncos game, and so might have spared himself having to call one of the worst events ever presented by upright mammals. And when we say "events," we mean "things watched by other people"-sporting contests, sure, but also television, movies, films, concerts, art exhibits, circuses, operas, mime, busking on the boardwalk, all the way down to battlefield operating theaters."
"Because Al is a professional, his preparation for a game likely does not include "painfully accurate blogs roasting the Raiders on a worker-owned sports website." But it's hard to think of anything that might better have prepared him for Thursday's 10-7 Broncos unloss (to call it a win is far too generous) over the Raiders; it was a game so dire that it moved Comrade Anantharaman's pungent analysis of a previous brutal Raiders game from "well-aimed snark" to "unsettling prescience.""
Al Michaels' broadcast could not redeem an exceptionally poor 10-7 Broncos result over the Raiders that resembled an embarrassment rather than a true victory. The contest featured painfully inept play from both teams, moving prior pungent critiques of Raiders performances into unsettling prescience and exposing long-ignored Broncos fraudulence. Viewing comparisons ranged from a dreadful karaoke rendition to Civil War-era trauma medicine, emphasizing the sheer agony of watching. Michaels' tone registered visible disgust, and commentators repeatedly flinched at the lack of quality. A prior Raiders loss with 95 total yards and a 31-0 defeat felt like a superior contest.
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