Mike Patrick, a long-time ESPN play-by-play man who achieved a degree of infamy in this state with one awkward moment during the 2007 Alabama-Georgia football game, has died. He was 80.

Patrick’s death was announced by ESPN, for whom he called games in a variety of sports from 1982-2017. He died of natural causes on Sunday in Fairfax, Va.

A West Virginia native, Patrick was the original voice of ESPN’s Sunday Night Football NFL package from 1987-2005, working alongside former quarterback Joe Theismann for much of that time. He also called numerous college sporting events, including 30 ACC basketball tournaments, 14 women’s Final Fours, several College World Series and dozens of Thursday night and Saturday night football games.

The most talked-about moment of Patrick’s career came during a Saturday night SEC telecast 18 years ago in Tuscaloosa. With Georgia and Alabama locked up in an overtime battle at Bryant-Denny Stadium, Patrick out of nowhere asked color commentator Todd Blackledge, “what is Britney [Spears] doing with her life?”

Blackledge responded with confusion, Georgia scored a touchdown on the next play to win 26-23 and the moment went viral. Patrick later said he was simply trying to add some levity to a tense moment in the game.

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A U.S. Air Force veteran and graduate of George Washington University, Patrick began his career in radio in Somerset, Pa., in 1966. He later worked in television in Jacksonville, Fla., and Washington, D.C., before being hired at ESPN some three years after the network was founded.