The ESPN personality is very open to working two sports at once

1. ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler did something two months ago that is very rare these days: They drew an overwhelming amount of praise on Twitter for their call of the Steelers-Giants Week 1 Monday Night Football game.

The fact that the network’s top college football broadcast team would call a good game isn’t all that shocking. But the smoothness Herbstreit and Fowler showed in transitioning from college to NFL was impressive.

The new experience also seemed to give Herbstreit a jolt. He recently told The Big Lead that he was now more open to the idea of calling NFL games.

Herbstreit reiterated this thought and expanded on the idea during an appearance on this week’s SI Media Podcast.

I asked Herbstreit whether he ever seems himself not doing College GameDay.

“I don’t know,” he said. “I love it right now.