It’s Another Remarkable Day for Al Michaels, the Voice of Sports’ Top Moments

June 30, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Al Michaels never eats a damn vegetable.
Those are his words of warning when we discuss dinner options over the telephone. "You'll see I never eat a damn vegetable." Fair enough. We all have our quirks. 
But this goes well beyond George H.W. Bush giving presidential pardon to a serving of broccoli. Michaels avoids the raw veggies on a crudite plate in favor of crackers and brie when we chat around his kitchen table. Well, who wouldn't?
Michaels' autobiography includes an anecdote about refusing to eat the onions in a French onion soup. Sure enough, Michaels is offered tomato soup at the Pacific Dining Car, a traditional steakhouse on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. "Are there chunks of tomato?" he asked the waiter skeptically. When assured that the soup is entirely liquid, he samples it, then declines.
Would he like his baked potato with sour cream and chives? "No chives," he insists.
What kind of crazy person considers chives a vegetable?<...

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