I’ve read a great deal about how players were not mic’d up for the Steelers Brown game where Miles Garrett assaulted Mason Rudolph with his helmet swing to Rudolph’s unprotected head. They didn’t need to be for the NFL and news networks to clearly hear and record every utterance involved in that violent interaction.
Both the NFL and the media have sound technicians with parabolic microphones systems, most with 26” dishes capable of hearing a whisper at 500 feet, stationed all over the sidelines. There is typically at least a dozen there during each NFL game and I can guarantee you ALL of them in First Energy Stadium were trained on the exchange between Garrett and Rudolph.