Mike Tirico
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1,317 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 16 Jul
Mike Tirico’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now it's kind of grown from a very tribal and local thing to regional, national and global. which has just allowed the expansion of all this to happen. But at its roots, especially if you go over to soccer in England, it's our neighborhood. It's our team. They're our guys. And we can be mad at them, but you can't. And I love that about the sport.
There's something, Will, there's something about sports. Like... Most of us never meet the athletes who we wear their jerseys. You know, the old hockey line, you know, you go to a hockey game, especially where I live in Michigan, and you got a bunch of people walking around with other guys' last names on their back, right? Right, right.
But it's the one place, not only is it acceptable, it's encouraged. And it shows that you're a real fan, right?
I think so, too. My stump speech about sports and the value of sports is let's go to New Orleans for a Saints game. And let me take one section of the Superdome and I'm going to get black and white. I'm going to get male and female. I'm going to get straight and gay. I'm going to get different religions. I'm going to get everybody in that section.
And they're all wearing some black and gold for the Saints. And that doesn't happen at the opera. It doesn't happen at the movies. That's why I still think sports has this place, whereas everything's become so fractured. People still love their sports like nothing else.
I'm an HGTV guy, Sean, if you want to know the truth.
Wait, Mike, where are you from? I'm from Queens, from New York. Grew up as a New Yorker. You know, lived in the Northeast most of my life.
I wasn't. I'm Mets and a Jets fan. Yeah. Yeah, of course.
Well, the Mets thing was I just wanted to see them win the World Series once in my life. And they did. And I kind of outgrew it. It's like an allergy. You know, they say, hopefully, I outgrew it. So I've saved myself generations of pain after that. And then the rest of it, really, you do become agnostic. People say, well, how can you watch a game and not root?
There's one team in sports that I root for, and that's Syracuse. That's my alma mater.
With the orange. We used to be the orange men and women. Now we're just the orange.
It could be a color, a fruit, or a spirit. You take your pick.
A thousand, thousand percent. I'll give you just a quick, quick anecdote. Like I, you know, you do this, so you kind of know people, but you're not around them. Then I started working at NBC and I get to be around Chris a little bit more and I get to know him. And Chris and Al Michaels were a terrific team doing Sunday night football for a long time.
On the Mount Rushmore. One of the best, if not the best, in every sport to ever do it, right? So I get to start working with Chris. And, you know, Chris made it so easy for me. It's like, hey, do the game you do. We can do things a little bit different. It's fine. Yeah. He's that way professionally, but he's also that way personally. Chris, his wife Holly, they're kids.
They've become friends of me, my wife, our kids. And that helps because when you're on the air on Sunday night, you're just sitting with a friend watching a game. Yeah, that's what it feels like. And I think that makes it easy on Sunday night at 9 o'clock. You're not listening to two people trying to compete. We're trying to be our parts in the symphony.
But, you know, the reason it happens like that is... Is because Jason's on a gummy?
Where do you work from mostly? I work most of the week in my house. I live in Michigan. And then we travel to the games. Usually for Sunday night football, we'll travel on Friday. For the Olympics, we'll get there a week before the opening ceremony.
You like where you live? It's a lot. It's a lot. But I've come to love America. I love the fact that I can be dropped in like 40 cities in America and I don't need a map. I know where the restaurants are. I know where you can go for a walk.
It is really cool. I really do feel like I've seen and know our country because, you know, you spend three days in Minneapolis. You spend three days in Chicago, three days in New England.
I love it. I really do.
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