ESPN Announcer Mark Adams Slithers Into Sex Lives Of Snakes During Ohio State Game

ESPN basketball analyst Mark Adams made hiss-tory Wednesday when he veered into a lecture on the sex lives of snakes during the Ohio State-Towson game in Columbus, Ohio.

The website Awful Announcing tweeted a portion of the segment, writing that the broadcaster was giving Bill Walton a run for weirdest dude calling college basketball games for ESPN.

Holding a fake snake, Adams told play-by-play colleague Mike Corey with a few minutes left in the first half: They become sexually active, Mike, at about 5 years old, and as a matter of fact right now is at the end of their mating season. Youve got to think that 7 the snake is probably pretty happy right now that mating season is basically close to being over.

Mark Adams giving Bill Walton a run for weirdest dude calling college basketball games for ESPN pic.twitter.com/mtFhY2PP4x

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Mark Adams giving Bill Walton a run for weirdest dude calling college basketball games for ESPN pic.twitter.com/mtFhY2PP4x
Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 9, 2021

Adams was merely elaborating on Buckeyes center Zed Keys pet ball python named 7, which was mentioned during the ESPNU broadcast, the Columbus Dispatch reported .

The sportscaster went all in, preparing a fun lecture about the snakes.

Ball pythons are really interesting, he said, per the Dispatch. Theyre a constrictor. These little snakes, they can wrap around you and they squeeze the life out of you. So if youre a rat in say Central Africa, good luck against the ball python. Its probably not going to work out very well.

The Buckeyes won, 85-74 , but Adams may have bobbled at least one factoid: According to PetHelpful , male ball pythons reach sexual maturity at 16 to 18 months, and females at 27 to 31 months, well short of the five years he claimed.

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