When you look back at the beginning of your broadcasting career, what was the version of Adam Amin like who was chasing the dream and how different is he from the person sitting in the national FOX Sports booth today?
The first time I was paid to broadcast a game, I was 21 years old and insecure about EVERYTHING. I’m 39 now and would love to believe that I have outgrown every insecurity that plagued me when I started this career…but I know that I haven’t. And that’s okay. I’ve learned that it’s more important to be present in a moment and that the in-depth preparation for each broadcast allows me to anticipate what might come next so that I can properly frame it and contextualize it for an audience. So while I still feel like that insecure kid on occasion, I know that the work that I apply to each broadcast makes that self-doubt disappear.
Your career has taken you from local and regional broadcasting to calling some of the biggest stages in sports. Describe a particular moment when you realized, “I’ve made it.”
I don't know if I have ever felt the definitive “I’ve made it” moment but I have had a few inflection points, certain events where reflecting back on the experience really made me feel the impact in my career. The first significant college football that I broadcasted was the 2013 Iron Bowl, known as the “Kick Six” game between heated rivals Auburn and Alabama when Chris Davis of the Tigers returned a missed field goal 109 yards with no time left to win the game. Five years later, I called my first Women's Final Four when Arike Ogunbowale of Notre Dame hit game-winning shots in back-to-back games, including a buzzer beater to win the national championship. And last October, we were in Seattle for a 15-inning marathon between
Detroit and Seattle in what ended up being the longest winner-take-all game of a playoff series in Major League Baseball history. All three of those sequences boosted my profile and resume, but they also gave me confidence to know that I am equipped to handle moments of the highest stakes and drama and tension.