MAGA 在资深共和党播音员阿尔·迈克尔斯嘲讽特朗普改名一事后怒火中烧
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- •Al Michaels 在 Amazon 的 Thursday Night Football 转播中调侃特朗普将 Lake Ontario 更名为 Lake America，并说到转播到 Buffalo 时，观众可能都不确定这些湖该叫什么名字。
- •MAGA 支持者在社交媒体上批评 Michaels，一些人指责他患有“Trump Derangement Syndrome”，并要求他道歉。
- •81 岁的 Michaels 自 2022 年起担任 Amazon Prime Video 的 Thursday Night Football 实况解说，播音生涯已超过五十年，包括 1980 年“Miracle on Ice”的经典解说。
- •Fox News 作者 Zach Dean 指出，Michaels 长期为共和党和 GOP 相关事业捐款；HeatMap 的 Matthew Zeitlin 则将转播间形容为“R+100”的环境。
- •球迷提到 Bob Costas 2012 年有关枪支管制的言论，以及 Rush Limbaugh 2003 年离开 ESPN 的 Monday Night Football，作为体育解说涉政后常遭反弹的先例。
总统唐纳德·特朗普在周四晚间的一场 Amazon 转播比赛中成为镜头内调侃的对象，MAGA 支持者对此并不高兴。
在克利夫兰进行的 Patriots-Browns 转播中，81 岁的播音员 Al Michaels 评论了特朗普最近将 Lake Ontario 更名为 Lake America 的决定。镜头给出球场及其周边滨水社区的远景时，Michaels 说道："That is Lake Erie. We think it is still called Lake Erie ... We're not quite sure at this point. But we'll be by Lake something like Ontario or whatever it's going to be called by the time we get to Buffalo. Anyway, you know what I'm talking about... Read the news."
Michaels 是美国体育播报中最耳熟能详的声音之一，职业生涯跨越五十多年，包括长期解说 NFL 黄金时段比赛，以及 1980 年冬奥会冰球“Miracle on Ice”等标志性时刻。自 2022 年流媒体平台接手该赛事版权以来，他一直担任 Amazon Prime Video 的 Thursday Night Football 实况解说，这一变化本身也反映了联盟将重点赛事从传统电视网转向流媒体的趋势。
Fox News 记录了随后出现的 MAGA 愤怒，一些批评者称 Michaels 现在患有“Trump Derangement Syndrome”。
"NFL fans don’t want to watch Trump-hating, America-last announcers. Al Michaels must apologize," 一名球迷在 X 上写道。
"He should be grateful to live in a country that would pay someone who is barely alive millions to butcher a football game," 另一人补充道。
"Remember when Bob Costas tried to get political in 2012 about gun control and he managed to piss off pretty much every person and the nation ..." 第三个人说。
"Al Michaels mocked President Trump and America during tonight’s NFL preseason Thursday Night Football game on Amazon, featuring the Cleveland Browns vs. the New England Patriots … NFL fans don’t want to watch Trump-hating, America-last announcers. Al Michaels must apologize," Laura Loomer 的盟友 Charles R. Downs 说。
亚利桑那州一名居民回复 Downs 说："I'm a MAGA guy, but this renaming s–– is f—– stupid and alienating anyone one the fence."
此次交锋让人联想到更早一些体育评论与政治碰撞的事件，包括 Costas 2012 年在 NFL 转播中谈论枪支管制，以及更近一些的 ESPN “Monday Night Football” 与保守派评论员 Rush Limbaugh 的合同，后者在 2003 年就 Donovan McNabb 的言论后结束——球迷们引用这些先例，说明播音员一旦涉足政治，往往会遭遇反弹。
HeatMap 记者 Matthew Zeitlin 评论说，转播间是一个 "R+100" 的区域——这是竞选中用来描述某个选区更偏民主党还是共和党的术语。在这里，他的意思是转播间里的每个人都是共和党人。
Fox 作者 Zach Dean 也表达了类似观点，指出 Michaels "has a long history" of donating to Republicans and GOP causes。
Dean 还写道："If anyone is actually mad at this, you probably need to take a good look in the mirror and reassess some things. For years, all I heard was 'liberals don't laugh enough!' Let's not be one of them."
他补充说："You can be a Republican and still admit that Trump changing the name of a lake on a random Thursday in August with war raging in the east and the primaries two months away is, objectively, hilarious. And dumb. Both things can be true."
Al Michaels: "That is Lake Erie. We think it is still called Lake Erie... We're not quite sure at this point. But we'll be by Lake something like Ontario or whatever it's going to be called by the time we get to Buffalo. Anyway, you know what I'm talking about... Read the news." pic.twitter.com/zqOHbR7sST — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) August 28, 2026
