WATCH: Baby crawling race during halftime of SEC basketball game results in surprisingly dramatic show
By Keith Farner
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Former Georgia women’s basketball coach Andy Landers doesn’t usually have a shortage of emotion. But his commentating experience added a twist on New Year’s Eve alongside Peter Burns.
During halftime of the Mississippi State-Georgia women’s basketball game on the SEC Network, Landers and Burns showed a baby crawling race from Stegeman Coliseum. Landers, who retired two years ago from coaching the Georgia program, explained that his secretary’s baby was in the race as No. 4.
Daniel Bramlette, an SEC Network producer, shared the video, which quickly developed as dramatic a play-by-play as a last-second sequence in a college game.
As Landers’ rooting interest stopped and turned to her opponents, Landers raised his voice and said, “she turned her back on her mother!”
Then Burns noted the “closing speed” as Landers began the celebration early.
“You got this … winner winner chicken dinner.”
Burns added, “For her to have the heart at halfway through, turn around and say, no, I’m going.”
Landers then took to full commentator mode and said the baby had the vision and self-awareness to see what was around her, and while she relaxed like many athletes do, she finished on top.
“But she’s really, really athletic, and like you saw in that video, I’m not at all surprised.”
On 2017’s final day, we stumbled on to the greatest hilite of the year pic.twitter.com/EBPRnGanAw
— Daniel Bramlette (@DannyBrams) January 1, 2018
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
