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SEC Network analysts in San Antonio drowned out by Florida fans singing ‘I Won’t Back Down’
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The SEC Network is representing the conference at the Final Four in San Antonio, and of the 14 SEC teams who were alive to start the NCAA Tournament, the league is down to Florida.
The mighty Gators are the last ones standing from a historically good conference, and on Monday night in the Alamodome they will try to win the program’s third national championship. And the SEC Network would love it if that happens, because it’s their guys. The SEC Network is all about Florida now, and Gators fans know it.
Earlier Monday, during a pregame report from San Antonio’s famed River Walk, those SEC Network hosts tried their best to capture a scene that featured those rabid Gators fans who were pumped for their team’s shot at a national title just hours later. Mostly though, those SEC Network hosts — Dari Nowkhah, Ron Slay and Daymeon Fishback — were just trying to hear themselves think because those fans were so very loud.
In fact, about halfway through the SEC Network report, the fans started singing the Gators’ equally famed rallying cry, “I Won’t Back Down,” a song by the late, great Gainesville native, Tom Petty.
And by the end of that report, the SEC Network trio was just trying to get a word in edgewise from the fans’ rendition of the song, which has become synonymous with Florida Gator athletics over the years.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
