I remember what Ed Swift of Sports Illustrated wrote in his article about the 1980 Sportsmen of the Year for SI: After a few months in Switzerland, the team kinda rebelled against him a little, in effect saying, "Look, we're not trying to beat the Russians or anything. Can we go back to the old way, please?"

Al Michaels has be a great grandpa like really next lvl from a storyteller perspective

Wow. "How could they vote that #1?". That's amazing he had such a focus.