Mike Tirico ended up calling Sunday Night Football just days after tearing his Achilles

While an Achilles tear is an automatic season-ending injury for any athlete, the same can’t be said for broadcasters. Mike Tirico can work through that pain.

During Week 12’s Sunday Night Football broadcast of Eagles-Rams, NBC’s Mike Tirico — with the encouragement of Cris Collinsworth — revealed to viewers that he had suffered a torn Achilles earlier in the week. But that didn’t stop him from making the trip to Los Angeles and calling the game from SoFi Stadium.

We even got a look at his setup to deal with the injury from within the booth. He was wearing a walking boot and had a stand to keep that leg elevated.

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

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And while I’m not sure what Tirico could have been doing to tear his Achilles, that had to be painful.

It’s good to see that he was able to joke about the incident and show that, yes, broadcasters are tough too.