It might be a little much to call it a victory tour, … But that’s the mind-set we’re going into it with. We’re going to make sure we go out on the highest level.

I’m just glad to spread joy around the world. And I’m glad that Oswald wasn’t reduced to playing the role of a rabbit at a dog track.

The game will continue. But the ABC era of ‘Monday Night Football’ comes to an end tonight.

It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.

How could it be better than this? I think it should move here permanently.

You wish maybe it could’ve gone on forever, but that’s the nature of the business, … This year, I’m just going to enjoy every moment and relish every minute of every game.

But we’re not supposed to talk anything besides football.

We’ll know in the fourth quarter that it’s been 555 times 4.

Once [Michaels] said that [he wanted to switch], we quickly moved in another direction on both the NFL and NBA.

It really is the end of an era. John’s always saying, ‘Let’s go out and make some memories.’ That’s what we try to do. We know it’s over. Let’s just try to make one more...

Those three words Monday Night Football resonate like no other,

For the last few years, we at ABC have been lobbying for a… flexible schedule… which would allow us to select a game of importance in the latter part of the season. We’d like to...

It’s been a phenomenal ride.

Living here in southern California, I’ll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.

I never thought I would live long enough to see a No. 6 seed go to the Super Bowl and be favored over a No. 1 seed.

I feel like I’m a creature of Monday night. I’m home and I’m staying home,

If the Patriots feel that Tom Brady is their man and they want to dance the dance with him in the future, then Bledsoe will be expendable.

It’s an American television institution. I think the median age (in the United States) is around 35 — so for more than half the people in this country, they’ve never had life without ‘Monday Night...

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

That’s a bad call. That’s adding insult to injury.

Maybe it’s a little much to call it a victory tour, but I think that’s the mindset we’re going to go in with,

If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that’s good or bad for the game, and if there aren’t any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.

It’s funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they’re always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay...

With his wealth of experience, and the knowledge he’s obviously accumulated through the years, Emmitt Smith would be a much smarter runner at this point of his career.

They made a mess of the end of the first half and the end of the game.

We’ve always considered it an honor to be part of this show and we’re going to go out with a bang. You wish it could have gone on forever, but that’s the nature of the...

This is a tough call.

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there… she’s in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College… and she was delivering a speech there.

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the...

I won’t be part of anything that distracts from our telecast. We are preparing to do a game that about 100 mil- lion people will watch. That is all we are doing. Next season starts...

creature of Monday night.

I don’t let anything distract me or unsettle me. I’m thinking of this year. I can’t respond to rumors.

Two minutes left in Super Bowl XXXIX, and with the Cowboys ahead by four points, the Patriots’ quest for history will hinge on this final drive.

I read an interview with her a couple of years ago… when she talked about what she wanted to do post-government career. She wanted to be the commissioner of the National Football League.

It was more a case of me being very comfortable if I could stay with my group. It couldn’t have gotten any better than it was the last four years.

You mean Tom Brady airing one out to David Patten ?

Oswald is definitely worth more than a fourth-round draft choice. I’m going to be a trivia answer someday.

That was one of the craziest dynamics – in fact, the craziest in broadcasting. I can’t think of anything like it.

It’s more a matter of honoring; that’s the way I look at it 1,000 percent. You don’t turn this into a promo. It’s too important.

Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I’m sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.

This was as tough a call as I’ve had to make. It wasn’t 80-20, it was 51-49.

That place rocks. When I’m in there on Monday nights, if the game is good, it’s about as loud as any place in the league. People think it’s laid-back … but fans there can be...

[That kind of sucked, didn’t it? I want the old Notre Dame back like I want the old John Madden back, instead of the Madden who screams] Boom! Now THAT is a FOOTBALL PLAYER! BOOM!...

The questions keep coming from different angles. All I will tell you is next season starts on Monday. Right now, we’re just thinking about the Super Bowl.

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here’s a team that seems to be jelling.

I’m excited about starting a brand-new run.

Some people haven’t really seen him. They might hear maybe this guy’s the best back in the league and say, ‘I want to take a look at this guy.’ There’s a great curiosity factor with...

We think it was a bad call. It’s kind of like adding insult to injury.

It would be a nice way for this whole run to end with the first overtime Super Bowl.

If I had to make a choice on that at this point in my life, I’ve been a terrible investor. And I haven’t been.