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Al Michaels mocked by Prime Video producers after bizarre 'bedtime story' on TNF broadcast
Al Michaels told a "bedtime story" on the TNF broadcast

Al Michaels turned a Thursday night blowout into story time, and Prime Video’s broadcast seemed to notice.

With the Jacksonville Jaguars pulling away from the Baltimore Ravens, Michaels told his broadcast partners he had “a good bedtime story” coming up and then spent more than four minutes on how Tom Coughlin became the Jaguars’ first head coach.

The tale began with the franchise being granted in November 1993 and starting play in 1995 alongside the Carolina Panthers. Coughlin was the head coach at Boston College when he got a message that mentioned something about a Jaguar, and he assumed a local car salesman was trying to reach him.

According to Michaels, the caller was actually David Seldin, the CEO of the Jacksonville Jaguars, who wanted to interview Coughlin for the head coaching job.

Coughlin said he was not interested when he learned Seldin planned to talk to five candidates, and Seldin called back a couple of weeks later to say the list was down to two.

“Anyway, if somebody ever calls you from a Jaguar dealership, answer the call,” Michaels said.

His broadcast partner Kirk Herbstreit added to the story by praising Coughlin’s work off the field, noting that the Jay Fund, which Coughlin started to fight childhood cancer, has raised more than $42 million.

Michaels finished by running through Coughlin’s career, including AFC championship game losses with Jacksonville in 1996 and 1999 and two wins over Bill Belichick’s Patriots with the New York Giants, in 2007 and 2011, on the way to two Super Bowl titles.

Tom Coughlin led the Giants to victories in Super Bowls XLII and XLVI against the New England Patriots -Credit:Al Bello/Getty Images

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