While attending elementary school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Keith was part of a reading program where he participated in a mock newscast.

[4] In 1996, Bud Adams, the owner of the National Football League's Houston Oilers announced he would move his team to Nashville.

That same year, while the team was in still in Houston, Keith began hosting a pre-game show for Tennessee stations that carried the Oilers games.

Keith's most famous call is that of the Music City Miracle, near the end of his first season as play-by-play announcer.

The unbelievable play resulted in a last-minute Titans win that kept them alive in the 1999-2000 NFL Playoffs and eventually led the team to Super Bowl XXXIV.