Earlier this week we encountered the mini-beef between sports blogger Bill Simmons and lead NBC NFL analyst Cris Collinsworth. Simmons called out Collinsworth for something he said during the Patriots game and Collinsworth made fun of Simmons’ HBO show getting canceled. Then Simmons had Collinworth onto his podcast, because that’s the way that hatchets are buried in 2016.

Simmons and Collinsworth quickly got past their extremely brief social media scuffle and had a pretty engaging discussion. That discussion included Collinsworth breaking some news about the Sunday Night Football broadcast booth. Namely, Collinsworth says Mike Tirico will call some games this year with him on Sundays.

Go to the 11 minute mark if you want to hear the news, go to the 10 minute mark if you want to hear Simmons read a very detailed cooking ad.

Collinsworth: “I don’t think he’s doing Sunday, I don’t think he is. He’s going to have a few games off and Mike Tirico is going to come in and do a few of these games. I don’t know exactly which games it is that he’s not going to do but they’re going to take care of my boy because we want him to be broadcasting at age 957.”

If you have been following the sports media beat this year, you know that there was a controversy earlier this year when NBC reportedly wanted Tirico to broadcast the Thursday Night Football package to spell Michaels and keep the 72 year old announcer from having to call two games in four days. However, the NFL stepped in and put the kibosh on the idea because they wanted the lead announce team from each network, aka Michaels and Collinsworth and nobody else, to do the Thursday games even though Tirico is one of the best announcers in sports. It was a bizarre case of unnecessary micromanagement that only the NFL could do in their detachment from reality.

Therefore, it seems that NBC’s way around this situation to try to assist Michaels and make sure he’s not calling two games a week down the stretch is to change their lead broadcast team for Sunday Night Football and put Tirico there some weeks. Unless there’s another contractual obligation we’re not aware of, NBC can apparently put whoever they want on their “lead broadcast team” so long as that “lead broadcast team” is announcing Sunday and Thursday Night Football. Then again, we didn’t think the NFL could mandate the network’s announcers for Thursday Night Football, so who knows.

According to Matt Bonesteel of the Washington Post though, Tirico might call a mix of Thursday and Sunday games and even a couple games with NBC’s Notre Dame analyst Doug Flutie.

To clarify: Mike Tirico will call four NBC games with Cris Collinsworth, plus two NFL Network games. — Matt Bonesteel (@MattBonesteel) November 16, 2016

The four Tirico-Collinsworth games: GB-WAS on Sunday, PIT-IND on Turkey Day eve, KC-DEN on Nov. 27, NYG-PHI on Dec. 22. — Matt Bonesteel (@MattBonesteel) November 16, 2016

Tirico also will call two NFL Network games in December with Doug Flutie. — Matt Bonesteel (@MattBonesteel) November 16, 2016

Hopefully this brings an end to this strange story and Tirico gets to call some games this year because he’s too good and too valuable to not call NFL games. This job is going to be his for the next 20 years after all. And I’m sure when he signed on with NBC this year there was a hope that he would still get to call some NFL games with the new Thursday package.

So if you’re scoring at home, NBC wanted to rest Al Michaels and allow Mike Tirico to announce Thursday Night Football. The NFL wouldn’t let Mike Tirico announce Thursday Night Football for Al Michaels because Al Michaels was the announcer for Sunday Night Football and the NFL said he had to announce Thursday Night Football. So instead of announcing Thursday Night Football, NBC will have Mike Tirico broadcast Sunday Night Football because Al Michaels has to announce Thurday Night Football. But because Mike Tirico is now announcing Sunday Night Football apparently he and Al Michaels both get to announce Thursday Night Football… I guess? Maybe?

Good.

UPDATE: Seconds after we published this story, NBC made Tirico’s assignments official in a press release. The network confirms Tirico will work this Sunday’s Green Bay-Washington game as well as the network’s Thanksgiving night game (Pittsburgh-Indianapolis) and Kansas City-Denver on Sunday November 27th. Tirico will call another Thursday Night Football game with Collinsworth on December 22 (Giants-Eagles) and two NFL Network games with Flutie on Saturday December 17 (Jets-Dolphins) and December 25 (Baltimore-Pittsburgh)