Crazy Fan on the Field at Lambeau

Описание: Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions game. January 1, 2012. Crazy fan gets onto the field and gets tackled by Packer player and the cops.

The following is a story from TwinCities.com written by my friend Amy Nelson. She and her husband, season ticket owners, gave my husband and I tickets to this game.

"Say Cheese: Video of Packer tackling fan was shot from my seats"
By Amy Nelson
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Updated: 01/03/2012 11:06:14 PM CST

I feel like a starting quarterback who just sat on the sideline and watched his backup set a franchise record after a big game: proud, surprised and...a little bit jealous. I gave some friends my tickets to Lambeau Field for Sunday's Green Bay-Detroit regular-season final game, and they shot a video in the second half of a fan running onto the field getting tackled by Packers linebacker Brad Jones - and the video went viral.

The video starts as the fan, reportedly a 15-year-old boy, starts running at midfield flapping his arms to get fans' attention. "Who is that?" my friend asks on the video as her husband starts laughing. As Jones makes the tackle and security piles on the person, the crowd cheers and the announcer makes the obligatory warning against running on the field.

My friend posted the video on YouTube, and it now has more than 100,000 views. Then the Huffington Post picked it up, and then ESPN contacted her to use it. Friends are posting it on Facebook. Random people are retweeting it. That should have been me! Those are my seats! Section 114, Row 55, Seats 17-18. Grrrr. But then again, I probably wouldn't have had the foresight to shoot the event or realized what was happening in time to capture it.

As the video continues to get attention this week, my friend is basking in her newfound fame and hoping it somehow leads to more. "How do we video into a Super Bowl ad for some cha-ching??" she messaged.

As for me, I'm heading back to Lambeau for the Jan. 15 playoff game - with my video camera ready.

Here is the link to the original story:
http://www.twincities.com/ci_19665923