Kirk Herbstreit 'More Open' To Leaving CFB For NFL After Monday Night Experience

Is ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit ready to leave college football for the pros? After calling the Steelers' win over the Giants on Monday Night Football in the opening week of the NFL season, Kirk sounds very open to it...

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"I had an absolute ball calling that game [Steelers-Giants] and it made me reflect a little bit differently toward my future and what I might want to do down the road," Herbstreit said. "Like I said, I hope to always do college football. But if NFL would be in my future, I'm a lot more open to that thought than I was maybe prior to that experience."
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"Most people in my shoes are just looking to grow and grow, 'one day maybe I'll do the NFL.' I've never had that," Herbstreit said. "With that being said, I was blown away by how much I enjoyed that game."
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"I have said how much I love college, how much college, just the pageantry of the sport, the marching bands, I'm just built that way, wired that way, probably because of the way I was raised," Herbstreit said. "That's always been my thing and I think it will probably always be my thing."
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"I have to be honest, I was just a little bit, not intimidated, I was just a little bit curious as to how they would handle Chris and Kirk coming in from college to do a Monday night game and they could not have been any more gracious," Herbstreit said of the NFL players and coaches he worked with in the leadup to Week 1. "That part kind of excited me, that they were pumped that we were there to do their game."

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(The Big Lead)