Al Michaels thought making a Harvey Weinstein joke was the right call (Video)

Sunday Night Football announcer Al Michaels thought making a Harvey Weinstein joke was something he should do.

The New York Giants took the Denver Broncos out behind the woodshed in front of a national audience on Sunday night, but that wasn’t the most embarrassing thing that happened. The Broncos made a slew of mistakes that led to the Giants getting the upper hand on them, but it was through a series of events.

Al Michaels made his mistake seemingly on a whim.

During the third quarter of Sunday night’s game, Michaels made a crack about how the Giants were coming off a worse week than Harvey Weinstein.

For context, the Giants are coming off a week where they lost three receivers for the rest of the season. Weinstein is coming off a week where he was exposed has having sexually assaulted and raped multiple women.

Here’s the joke, you be the judge:

*Crickets*

This isn’t the first time Michaels has said something stupid in the booth. A few weeks ago, amid the national anthem protests in the NFL, Michaels blamed the Raiders poor performance on their obsession with trying to figure out how to protest.

It’s also not the only announcing flub of the week. Dick Stockton went full Ron Burgundy during the Rams-Jaguars game, reading directions off the teleprompter. The only difference is, Stockton’s gaffe was unintentionally hilarious and involved no traces of trying to make light of women getting sexually molested in the workplace.

He later apologized on air for what he said:

“It was not meant in that manner. So my apologies, and we’ll just leave it at that.”

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Michaels didn’t mean anything by it, but maybe leave the jokes folks tell at NBC to people that know how to do it.