I actually called a touchdown on national TV in the NFL while going to the bathroom.
We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.
Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.
I started in radio. I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is.
You have to trust yourself.
You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know how long a half's going to last and then the timeouts happen and a incomplete pass.