Nick Saban spent his first year of retirement plenty busy. The former Alabama football coach spent his Saturdays in cities from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Columbus, Ohio and Dublin, Ireland, working as a analyst for ESPN's College GameDay.

And despite Kirk Herbstreit and McAfee insisting that Saban loves the banter and was just joking, Gillis felt that Saban grew legitimately angry once he repeated the SEC joke and called the legendary head coach “Alabama Jones.” (Warning: The video contains strong language).

One of the best moments of the new College Football Playoff didn't happen on the field, but rather on the ESPN College GameDay set when comedian Shane Gillis seemed to anger Nick Saban with a joke about how SEC teams paid players for years.

Lights, camera…audio issues. ESPN’s flagship program, College GameDay, got off to a rocky start in its’ pregame coverage of the Orange Bowl between Notre Dame and Penn State,

Comedian Shane Gillis said Nick Saban was angered by a joke he made on 'College GameDay' about the legendary Alabama coach paying players.

Shane Gillis, the famous comedian, revealed that legendary college football coach Nick Saban "spazzed on me" after making jokes that he had cheated while at Alabama.

Shane Gillis said he had a fiery off-camera interaction with Nick Saban after the comedian called the legendary Alabama coach a cheater on ESPN’s “College Gameday” last month. Gillis was first confronted by the coach after he told Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreit that the Crimson Tide only dominated because they were cheating by paying their players while others did not.