Kirk Herbstreit makes a lot of money to call football games. The long-time broadcaster is estimated to make somewhere between $14-18 million per year between his duties calling college football games for ESPN and NFL games on Amazon on Thursday Night Football.

Kirk Herbstreit called it a “perfect storm of emotion” a day after he went viral for crying on an ESPN broadcast following Ohio State’s CFP national championship win over Notre Dame. The college football analyst joined “The Pat McAfee Show,” and was asked about the moment. Herbstreit revealed it was a tough personal year for his family.

Kirk Herbstreit might be ESPN's lead college football analyst, but he's also an Ohio State man, and the Buckeyes winning the national championship means everything.

Buy Ohio State CFP championship books, posters, gear “I only know how I feel at the time,” Herbstreit said Tuesday. “That’s not something you think about or predict. It’s just like a perfect storm for me.

Kirk Herbstreit wasn't able to hold back his emotions after Ohio State won the national championship and later revealed his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.