Dan Patrick

And they were all really good anchors, co-anchors.

And it was sad.

It was the first time where I was like, God, I'll never get that back.

But Keith was done.

Keith had other things that he wanted to accomplish.

And I just remember one day, I thought, oh, God, I'm going to be the old guy on SportsCenter.

Like, I looked around, and I was the old guy on SportsCenter.

And then I started doing the 6 o'clock, and I go, that's where they put the old guys.

And that's when I realized I had stayed too long.

And I was 50.

I had stayed too long.

And I remember coming home and telling my wife, I said, I got to get my ass kicked.

She goes, by who?

I said, me.

Either I've outgrown ESPN or ESPN's outgrown me, but I got to do something.

And that kind of set in motion like a myriad of things where you're going, I got four kids.

Like, what am I going to, I got to challenge myself.

What am I going to do?

And I remember I was leaving, and I wanted to do the Olympics.

Dick Ebersole had always wanted me to work with NBC.