It’s somewhat heartwarming to learn that even in this day and age of heightened security, kids will do anything to see their heroes.
Texas safety Michael Taaffe told reporters about the lengths he went to as a high school sophomore in 2018 to sneak into the Cotton Bowl for the Texas-Oklahoma game. Not once, but twice!
“I was there, me and my buddy snuck onto the field,” Taaffe said Monday.
This wild tale seems almost too good to be true. And yet it’s totally believable if you’ve ever been to the State Fair of Texas and seen the lax security around the Cotton Bowl itself. It’s not exactly being guarded like Fort Knox.
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Mix the craziness of ESPN’s “College GameDay” and inject 100,000 fans — and thousands more who can’t get into the game — and it makes the perfect cauldron for chaos.
“It was an 11 a.m. kick, so you show up at like 4 a.m. to get front row of GameDay,” Taaffe said. “Well, you’re probably tired of standing after three hours. So 7 a.m. comes around, what are we going to do? Let’s just go to the field and see what’s going on. Let’s watch warm-ups.