Evan Roberts

You, though, as a former football player at the highest level, have that innate ability.

So I kind of feel that I get up for those moments the same as you probably did.

Can you sense a correlation there?

We live for it.

I think any broadcaster...

who's blessed to do what I've been doing in terms of play-by-play, just looking at it through that narrow prism, would tell you the same thing.

We live for the big moments.

And some of us are just afforded them more frequently than others, you know, depending on things that are out of our control.

But at the same time, man, they ratchet up a level of adrenaline that you don't feel most other days.

Well, I've been tossing it back and forth in my mind for the last couple of years.

I'm 72 years old now.

So effectively, when I retire, I'll be 73.

And objectively, I would sit back and say, well, isn't that enough?

I mean, most people are retired at 73.

What gives me pause, though, and had given me pause for a while, is that for whatever reason, this business is

seems to breed, whether it's insecurity or just such a deep passion for what we do, that it's more difficult to let go than it probably is for most other people in their given and chosen professions.

But, you know, I got to think of a couple of things.

Number one, I am sick and tired of coming home at night because we live in Florida now.

You know, I'll be a New Yorker forever, but Florida's home now.

And so when my wife is up in New York during the season, I come home at 11, 11.15, whatever, on an average night.