Back in September, the NFL legend Joe Montana saved his baby granddaughter from being kidnapped by a female intruder at his home in Malibu, California. In a new interview, the iconic former football player opened up about this terrifying experience for the first time.

Montana told police at the time that the woman entered his home through an unlocked door, and took his grandchild from a playpen where she was sleeping. The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement that as the woman tried to walk away with the baby, Montana and his wife “confronted the female, attempted to de-escalate the situation, and asked for the suspect to give back their grandchild. A tussle ensued and Mrs. Montana was able to safely pry the child out of the suspect’s arms.”

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Montana said that he was caught off guard when he saw the woman in his house.

“She came into the room and, you know, just total shock when somebody was standing there with the baby and I tried to grab the baby, she moved away from me, and Jennifer just came from the other side and just snatched her away out of her arms and then chased her down the beach and off,” he recalled. “Luckily there were police right, like, 30 yards down the beach handling something else and they came and got her.”

“You know, it’s just that, you see things that happen and you think, ‘Oh, that only happens to somebody else,'” Montana added. “I mean, we’re all in the house and you think, ‘Who would expect someone to walk in the house and pick up the baby?’ We’re extremely, extremely lucky that things didn’t happen a little bit differently, that she didn’t walk out that door with the baby.”

Thankfully, Montana said that his granddaughter is doing well, and that she is still a happy and social baby.

“But everybody’s good, everybody’s, you know, here on our toes a little more nowadays and it’s fun because you want to try and let people say she’s very, very social at a young age and a very happy baby and so you don’t want to curb her from that, but you also want to teach her a little bit about, you know, letting people get close and we’re a lot more guarded I should say,” he said.

As for who he is rooting for on Sunday in the Super Bowl, Montana said that he is just excited to see quarterbacks Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes go head to head.

“I think if anybody has an opportunity to, you know, catch up to the things that Tom has done, it’s Mahomes,” he said. “And, you know, [Mahomes] is young, he’s in his second Super Bowl, and if they come out of here with a victory, he’s well on his way to getting that, making that happen. He’s got a good team and he’s got a great coach and there’s much to say about that organization and the fans. When they get the fans back in the stadium, look out, it’s going to be total insanity.”