NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Robert Brazile dreamed of days like Saturday when he was preparing for quadruple bypass heart surgery 13 years ago.
"Laying on my back, I said I got to be able to get up from here. I got to stay alive, because I'm not in the Hall of Fame yet," Brazile told ESPN. "I got to live better to prepare myself for something that I've always wanted -- to be in the Hall of Fame."
Brazile's nerves might be more shaky sitting in a Minneapolis hotel Saturday, waiting for the knock, than they were on that day in 2005.