Daniel McKeague knows that when he's coaching his children's soccer team this summer he'll be asked to do the voice over and over again.

"I have no problems doing it. My kids are at an age right now when they get a kick out of it," said McKeague, whose children are 5, 8 and 11. "I know people on the soccer field will be asking for it, but that's OK. They'll mean no harm. People just want to hear that voice."

McKeague, of Hugo, Minn., beat out 12,500 contestants to replace actor Gilbert Gottfried as the new voice of the Aflac duck, the insurance company's mascot. Gottfried had voiced the duck for 11 years but was fired in March after making insensitive remarks about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which produces about 75 percent of Aflac's revenue.

Aflac soon announced a contest for Gottfried's replacement, and McKeague uploaded a 30-second clip to Aflac's website and later did a more formal video audition. He receives a one-year contract in the low six figures.

"Whenever that ad would come on I would imitate the duck and the kids loved it," McKeague said. "So now this is a dream come true for me."