Al Michaels is famous for a lot of things. He delivered the iconic “Do you believe in miracles?” call at the 1980 Winter Olympics. He’s called World Series, Super Bowls and NBA Finals as one of the most prominent voices in American sports over the past five decades. But he’s also famous for one very peculiar dietary hangup.
Michaels does not eat vegetables. Or, to be more precise, he claims to have never eaten a vegetable.
“If I died right now, I might be the human being who lived the longest without ever eating a vegetable,” Michaels told The New York Times in 2012.
Ever since then, the announcer has often been asked about his bizarre aversion to eating plants. The answer is always the same: Michaels insists he has never knowingly eaten a vegetable and that he never will.
In a recent interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace, Michaels, 78, went a step further.
“I guess what I’ve proven, Chris, is that man does not need vegetables to survive,” Michaels boldly claimed.
Al Michaels has never eaten a vegetable... this man is my spirit animal. pic.twitter.com/EDNe8D9KvE
— Rich Ohrnberger (@ohrnberger) October 6, 2023
Wallace asked if it was at all possible Michaels might like carrots. Michaels was having none of it.
“Oh, please,” he replied. “No, that’s an objectionable vegetable. I look at it. I just don’t even like the look of it, and I surmise what it might taste like just in terms of the texture of it. It just doesn’t look like something that would go down well.”
Maybe it’s worth trying just once, Al.
