Mike Carlson
| Mike Carlson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael Carlson Connecticut, US |
| Residence | London, UK |
| Nationality | American, British |
| Education | Wesleyan University BA McGill University MA |
| Occupation |
television pundit radio commentator writer journalist |
| Height | 6'3" |
| Television |
Channel 4's NFL coverage BBC's Super Bowl coverage Sky Sports WLAF/NFL Europe coverage, Major League Baseball coverage |
| Children | Nathaniel Carlson |
| Website | irresistibletargets |
Mike Carlson is a pundit of National Football League (NFL) coverage in the United Kingdom. He worked on Channel Five's coverage of the sport from 1998–2010 and Channel 4's coverage of the sport from 2010-2015. He was also the main analyst for BBC's coverage of the Super Bowl between 2008-2013 and 2016-2017. He also commentated on BBC's coverage of basketball at the 2012 Olympics and the 2016 Olympics. He is originally from Connecticut, US.
Carlson played tight end at Wesleyan University from 1968 to 1972. After moving to the UK in 1977, Carlson worked as a sports editor for the television news agency UPITN before joining ABC Sports as their director of programming in Europe. Later he became Vice-President of European operations for Major League Baseball before beginning his freelance career. In 1991, he teamed up with Nick Halling to cover Major League Baseball for satellite station Screensport, a partnership which continued with the World League of American Football, and during the early years of the league's successor, NFL Europe, on Sky Sports.
In 1994, Carlson left Major League Baseball and became a freelance journalist. He reviews books and film, and wrote three books in the Pocket Essentials series, on the film directors Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, and Oliver Stone. He also writes obituaries for The Guardian and The Independent and on sport for a number of outlets, including NFLUK.com. On screen he has also appeared occasionally as a baseball pundit on MLB on Five hosted by Jonny Gould, a sport he previously presented on Sky Sports in the mid-1990s. He also wrote the Channel Five Guide To Baseball. He is the commentator for World Baseball Classic on Eurosport. He has covered a variety of other sports on television including Basketball, Poker, Soccer, and Lacrosse. He has worked behind the scenes on the television coverage of both Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup tournaments. In 2000, he and Mark Webster provided commentary for the Meridian TV and ITV2 series Trans-Atlantic Wrestling Challenge. On 21 May 2011, Carlson "will call all the action from the Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium in Arusha when Tanzania hosts the first game of college American Football to be played on the African continent." Since 2010 he has returned to Channel 4 to provide punditry for the 2011–12 NFL season and co-hosted the American sports podcast Americarnage with Nat Coombs and Dan Louw from 2011 to 2016.
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