NBC's Mike Tirico ready to pull off an Olympic-sized feat at Super Bowl

MILAN — Mike Tirico was baptized connected the time of Super Bowl I.

Sunday, the NBC play-by-play announcer volition beryllium baptized by fire.

Not lone volition Tirico telephone the Super Bowl for the archetypal time, but helium volition enactment connected the Levi’s Stadium tract aft the crippled to remotely big Sunday night’s sum of the Winter Olympics.

From football’s mountaintop to the majestic peaks of Northern Italy, it’s an unprecedented treble play successful the broadcasting business.

“We’ll support the Super Bowl solemnisation threaded into the Olympic amusement — confetti, household moments, that benignant of thing,” said Tirico, 59, who worked some events 4 years agone but didn’t telephone that Super Bowl astatine SoFi Stadium, alternatively hosting the pregame show.

“What I learned from Super Bowl LVI is that it’s imaginable to bash this without cheating either job.”

Maybe so, but it requires the bonzer enactment and mentation for which Tirico is celebrated wrong the network. Each year, helium distributes to colleagues a color-coded calendar — a antithetic colour for each athletics he’s covering that time — and the patchwork connected each leafage looks similar the Partridge household bus.

“Mike is the world’s champion multitasker,” said Rob Hyland, coordinating shaper of “Sunday Night Football.”

“This is successful his DNA. It’s however he’s wired.”

Even for Tirico, however, the task is ambitious. The time aft calling the Rams’ divisional playoff crippled astatine Chicago, helium boarded a formation for Italy to cheque retired the NBC studios successful Milan. It was each portion of getting comfy with the setup.

On Super Bowl Sunday, hours earlier the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots instrumentality the field, Tirico volition beryllium up astatine 4:30 connected the West Coast to ticker Lindsey Vonn successful the women’s downhill. He past volition effort to get backmost to slumber to hole for his agelong time of football, knowing helium volition beryllium moving connected adrenaline heavy into the night. At halftime, he’ll carve retired a fewer minutes to get up to velocity connected what’s happening successful Italy.

On Monday, helium and others from NBC volition alert to Milan, with Tirico opening his in-studio Olympics sum Tuesday.

Tirico is conscionable the 13th play-by-play announcer to telephone a nationalist Super Bowl broadcast. He said Sunday volition beryllium similar being backmost astatine Syracuse and taking 3 last exams successful 1 day. He figures helium volition graze his mode done the time but doesn’t program to beryllium down for a meal, per se.

“They ever accidental you should beryllium somewhat bare erstwhile you instrumentality a test,” helium said. “I subscribe to that mentation connected crippled day.”

Whereas mentation for the Super Bowl begins the infinitesimal the participating teams are determined, Tirico said his enactment connected the Olympics has been years successful the making.

“You privation to beryllium prepared but not over-prepared,” helium said, referring to some events. “You privation to cognize the important things you tin get to during the game.”

The cardinal is to usage the accusation judiciously without overloading the assemblage with facts and statistics.

“With each that item and accusation arsenic granular arsenic helium tin get, helium ne'er loses show of what’s important for a wide audience,” Hyland said. “Mike is simply a unicorn. He’s 1 of one.”

As for Hyland, he’s 1 and done. After the Super Bowl, helium volition caput location to Connecticut and go portion of said audience.

“I’ll beryllium playing the relation of dada backmost connected my sofa successful Southport with our six-month-old babe boy,” helium said. “I’ll beryllium watching the Olympics arsenic a fan.”

In a sense, Tirico is simply a fan, too. There’s inactive a kernel of disbelief that this is his job.

“This is the happening that happens aft you halt dreaming,” helium said. “Because your dreams ne'er fto you get this far.”