Foster had saved his life, Burns said to KOMU 8, joking Thursday that Foster was the clean-up hitter as the fourth person to help out. Missouri football trainers treated Burns after four of his ribs were slightly fractured after the ordeal.

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

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 reporter Peter Burns is lucky to be alive - all thanks to the lifesaving work of a college football fan. Burns, who covers the SEC for ESPN, was out to dinner in Columbia, Missouri, on Friday, September 13,