Mike Tirico reveals torn Achilles during Rams-Eagles SNF broadcast

Mike Tirico is working through pain, revealing that he tore his Achilles on the Sunday Night Football broadcast between the Philadelphia Eagles and Los Angeles Rams. Tirico’s broadcast partner Cris Collinsworth pushed him to share the news with the nation.

“Hi, torn my Achilles. I’m okay,” Tirico said. “Playing through it. Going to make it through the season.”

Mike Tirico is playing through the pain, calling the games with a torn Achilles.

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It’s not clear how Tirico suffered the torn Achilles, but it didn’t impact his call as he was smooth with his presentation. Tirico is in his third season as the play-by-play voice for Sunday Night Football. This past summer, the 57-year-old hosted NBC’s coverage of the Paris Olympics.

“[Tirico] is one of the last of a breed,” Front Office Sports wrote, per Tirico’s NBC bio. “The sports TV world of the 1970s and 1980s was studded with versatile sportscasters who called multiple sports with aplomb…and always seemed to narrate the biggest sports moments. Not anymore.”

Tirico made his NBC Sports debut in 2016 after spending 25 years at ESPN. During the 2017 NFL season, Tirico was named the play-by-play voice of Thursday Night Football along with Collinsworth.

We’ll have more on this story shortly.

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