Being a play-by-play broadcaster can certainly be a fun job, but it isn’t easy. According to SportsMediaWatch, NBC Sports broadcaster Mike Tirico will call Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 and then immediately pivot to anchoring primetime Olympics coverage later that evening. Tirico covered the Super Bowl and the Beijing Olympics on the same day in 2022, but as a studio host.

It will be a tall order for the longtime broadcaster, who is balancing a packed NBA and NFL schedule this fall. With Tirico set for double duty, let’s take a look back at some of the notable feats of single-day broadcasting.

Vin Scully — June 3-4, 1989

Vin Scully is among the most decorated and respected sports broadcasters, and it’s no surprise that the man whose career lasted 67 years may have put together the greatest feat of anyone. In 29 hours, Scully called 36 innings of baseball across two cities. On Saturday, June 3, 1989, Scully did NBC’s “Game of the Week” between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs at Busch Stadium. After a 10-inning St. Louis win, he hitched a ride to the airport and flew to Houston, where he was to call the series finale between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros the next day.

That is where things took a turn. When he landed in Houston, Saturday night’s game between the two teams hadn’t yet finished. He decided to head to the ballpark and wound up hopping on play-by-play in the 10th inning. He was on the air for 13 frames; the Astros won 5-4 in 22 innings. To top it all off, Sunday’s game went 13 innings, a 7-6 Dodgers loss.

Joe Buck — Oct. 14, 2012

During his time at Fox Sports, Buck had a number of extremely busy periods. From Oct. 11 to Oct. 29, 2018, Buck called 15 NFL and MLB games in six different cities. In 2012, he pulled off a single-day doubleheader in San Francisco, calling the 49ers-Giants game at Candlestick Park before doing the NLCS Game 1 Giants-Cardinals broadcast.

It was a very tight squeeze with timing, so much so that baseball color analyst Tim McCarver was ready to do play-by-play early in the baseball game if needed. After a 26-3 Giants victory, Buck left Candlestick Park at 4:27 p.m. local time. The action at AT&T Park was scheduled to start around 5:15 p.m. In pure San Francisco fashion, Buck took a motorized cable car with a police escort to make the journey. The seven-mile trip was completed 10 minutes before first pitch.

“I’m in the White Bronco driven by Al Cowlings,” Buck said at the time. “This whole streetcar thing is a diversionary tactic. We’ll be in Mexico by midnight.”

Kirk Herbstreit — Oct. 12, 2024 and Oct. 11, 2025

The college football and NFL color analyst has gone viral in recent years for his packed travel schedules. Each week during the season, Herbstreit posts his itinerary as he travels from “Thursday Night Football” to the site of ESPN’s “College GameDay” and finally to ESPN’s primetime college football game.

Kirk Herbstreit had to hit the road around 10:45 a.m. ET to fly to Dallas for Texas-Oklahoma. pic.twitter.com/pBeAikgdhV

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 12, 2024

In the last two seasons, ESPN’s “College GameDay” has traveled to the Oregon campus on the same weekend as the Red River Rivalry game between Oklahoma and Texas. With the “GameDay” broadcast beginning at 6 a.m. PT in Eugene, Ore., Herbstreit has an early start to the day.

The Red River game in Dallas was scheduled for 2:30 p.m. CT (12:30 p.m. PT), so there was very little margin of error. Herbstreit left the “GameDay” set prior to the show’s conclusion early on both occasions. This season’s journey to the airport included a ride on a motorcycle with Oregon mascot Puddles and a Jeep trip with his dog, Peter.

A private plane took Herbstreit on the 2,000-mile journey to Dallas. After landing, a car ride with a police escort got the ESPN personality to the Cotton Bowl around 45 minutes before kickoff. Herbstreit made frequent appearances on the “GameDay” telecast during his voyage, including from the air.

Ray Ferraro — Oct. 8, 2024

On opening night of the 2024-25 NHL season, Ferraro completed a feat that is believed to have never been done before in the NHL: calling two games in one day. Ferraro, ESPN’s lead NHL analyst, was asked by network executive Mark Gross about the personal doubleheader. He loved the idea.

Ferraro’s two contests started less than seven hours apart. He began his day at 1:30 p.m. PT in Seattle, as the Kraken opened their season against the St. Louis Blues. After the game concluded, the 18-year NHL veteran hopped in a waiting car to the airport.

His second broadcast was the inaugural game of the now-Utah Mammoth in Salt Lake City against the Chicago Blackhawks, beginning at 7:30 p.m. PT. When he landed in Utah, a second car was waiting to take him to the Delta Center. If the Kraken game had gone to overtime, Ferraro almost surely wouldn’t have made it in time. Seattle lost 3-2 in regulation, so it was meant to be.

Bill Raftery — Jan. 10, 2016

The legendary college basketball analyst pulled off a particularly special accomplishment nearly 10 years ago when he called games for two different networks. Raftery began with an Ohio State-Indiana game at Assembly Hall in Bloomington on CBS at 1:30 p.m. ET. For the nightcap, he remained in the state of Indiana, heading to Indianapolis for a Villanova-Butler matchup at 7:35 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1. The drive from Bloomington to Indianapolis is a little over an hour, so Raftery had plenty of time to get to Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse.

He told the Indianapolis Star it was “pretty special” to work in those two iconic buildings on the same day. Assembly Hall opened in 1971, while Hinkle Fieldhouse has been around since 1928.

March Madness broadcasters

It must be noted that one of the more remarkable same-day broadcasting achievements takes place each year during the first two days of March Madness. In the first round of the men’s NCAA Tournaments, 16 games are broadcast across four different regional sites, meaning each broadcast crew is responsible for four games in one day. Those in the play-by-play industry say this is the toughest assignment of them all, according to Richard Deitsch, who covers sports media for The Athletic. While there are too many broadcasters to name specifically, their marathon days should not be overlooked.