The creator of the hilarious Doug Jones Kick Six parody was late to the action.

Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin, was out celebrating his fifth anniversary with his wife as the nation focused its attention on the Alabama special election involving Doug Jones and Roy Moore. By the time Burke made it back into his office, the election had been called in Jones' favor -- a stunning result given no Democrat had been elected to the United States Senate from Alabama in 25 years.



Burke scrolled back on Twitter and saw that Moore, a controversial figure, was actually winning the race at one point before Jones shot past him late in the evening. It sparked an idea for the video maestro.



"I thought well jeez this reminds me of another surprising turnaround in Alabama history," Burke told AL.com via direct message. "So I pulled the 2013 Iron Bowl from my archive and quickly photoshopped out Moore and Jones heads, and did it all in Adobe premiere."

"They're not gonna keep 'em off the field tonight!" pic.twitter.com/n82yhZhgk8 — Deadspin (@Deadspin) December 13, 2017

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The whole process took Burke 45 minutes to put together the Jones-inspired Kick Six video of the most famous Iron Bowl play. The biggest delay was waiting on Charles Barkley to say Doug Jones during an interview so he could clip the audio and insert it over Auburn announcer Rod Bramblett's famous call.

The video quickly took off on Twitter as both Alabama and Auburn fans seemed to enjoy the absurdity of seeing Jones' face on Chris Davis' body as he maneuvered through Alabama's defense for a 109-yard touchdown. Burke, who has created numerous viral videos over the years for Deadspin, admitted there was some uneasiness from an accuracy standpoint but was glad to see it well received.

"I felt bad making it because it's ideologically inaccurate (Alabama being the more liberal of the two schools, and Doug Jones himself being a Roll Tide guy) but I guess it connected with a lot of people," Burke said. "As of today, more people have viewed the video than voted in the election."

I've been waiting for this Doug Jones Kick Six spoof! https://t.co/yaHtBwOcoS — Jody Lavigne (@PLAYA_HATA1) December 13, 2017

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen — 🧙🏻‍♀️blonde ms wardwell🧙🏻‍♀️ (@PolitikMasFina) December 13, 2017

I’m crying my head off!😂😂😂😂 — Susan says...⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ (@Subachef) December 13, 2017

John Talty is the college sports editor for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @JTalty.