Chris Whittingham

honor for me as a broadcaster to be like, all right, I'm with this guy.

He's still throwing 101 on the black.

He's still absolutely brilliant in terms of what he does from a broadcasting standpoint, the energy that he brings.

And also he never got jaded.

He cared every bit about the game and honoring the game all the way until the very end.

So I kind of knew that it was it.

And I was kind of hoping all summer

from May when the Champions League ended until now that he would change his mind and want to go again.

But I think he kind of knew that it was going to be the end.

And we had kind of said it after that crazy semifinal.

And yeah, I mean, for me, I got to do it for a year and a half regularly on the Champions League.

We worked here and there at Inter Miami and on Be In Sports.

But as you said, for me, it was sort of the honor of a lifetime.

I remember the first time I worked with him, it was a World Cup qualifier.

I think it was Brazil against Paraguay.

And I was starstruck for half of the game.

And it was crazy to kind of call a game that way.

But the first time he did the thing, it was like, wow, he did the thing.

And he was sitting next to me while doing it.

It was incredible.