Al Michaels Says He Has Never Eaten a Vegetable: 'Man Does Not Need Vegetables to Survive'
"I always pushed the vegetables away," the 78-year-old sports commentator confessed to CNN's Chris Wallace
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Al Michaels, 78, says he has never eaten a vegetable.Al Michaels is on a winning streak. His opponent? Vegetables.
The sports commentator, 78, opened up about his lifelong aversion to the produce in an interview with CNN, telling journalist Chris Wallace that he has gone his entire life without — at least, as Wallace put it, “knowingly” — eating a single vegetable.
In the excerpt of CNN’s Who's Talking to Chris Wallace, which premiered Friday on Max, Michaels said that his veggie-less diet traces back to his childhood.
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“I was born when my parents were 18,” Michaels told the broadcaster. “So [my mom] just let me have the run of the course. And I always pushed the vegetables away. To this day, no.”
He continued, “And I guess what I’ve proven, Chris, is that man does not need vegetables to survive.”
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Sports commentator Al Michaels has never eaten a vegetable, he claims.When asked if it is possible that, if he actually tried it, Michaels may actually enjoy a “non-objectionable” vegetable, such as a carrot, the commentator replied, “Oh, please.”
“No, that’s an objectionable vegetable,” he continued.
And how does he know without ever having tasted the orange produce? “I look at it [and] I just don’t even like the look of it. And I surmise what it might taste like, in terms of the texture of it.”
“It just doesn’t look like something that would go down well,” he added.
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Barstool Sports shared an excerpt of the clip on X, and users had a lot to say about Michaels’ anti-veggie lifestyle.
Some people lauded the commentator, writing things like “Impressive” and “Real heroes don’t wear capes.”
Others questioned his story (“How is that possible!?”), while others related to his aversion.
"He just like me for real ????," one user wrote.
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This isn’t the first time Michaels has opened up about his dietary quirk.
“I don’t eat any vegetables,” he told The New York Times in 2012. “None. I have never eaten vegetables.”
He added, “As I grew older, I just would not even look at them. If I died right now, I might be the human being who lived the longest without ever eating a vegetable.”
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