ESPN personality Peter Burns credits a University of Missouri football fan for saving his life over the weekend during an unexpected emergency.

On the other side of Bud’s Classic BBQ in downtown Columbia, Peter Burns was, in fact, choking. The SEC Network anchor and ESPN radio personality was eating with conference commissioner Greg Sankey and the broadcast crew for Saturday’s football game when a piece of steak became lodged in his throat.

Choking on a piece of food for several minutes at a Columbia, Missouri, restaurant, ESPN host Peter Burns saw his life flash before his eyes. “It’s at that moment, man, that I realize I don’t know if I’m going to live ,” Burns, an SEC Network anchor and national radio host for ESPN Radio, said on his show Monday, Sept. 16.

ESPN personality Peter Burns said a Missouri fan "saved my life" this past weekend after he was choking on a piece of food. Host of ESPN and SEC Network shows like "SEC Now" and "SEC This Morning," Burns said on social media Monday that he was dining with co-workers in Columbia,