January 11, 2021 • 16 mins
In a 2011 college football game between UCLA and Arizona, a man dressed as a referee enters the field of play and whistles the game dead. His goal? To get the ball and score a touchdown... naked. Former U of A student Jacen Lankow reveals how and why he attempted one of the greatest streaks in football history, and explains how to trick the TV networks into covering your moment in the spotlight.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Trickeration, a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome
back to the Trickeration podcast, the number one podcast about
deception in sports. Honest conversations about dishonest acts is what
we're all about. Here. I'm your host, Matt bringing you
your weekly dose of sports nonsense, deep dives into acts
(00:24):
of cheating, scheming, pranking, hoaxing, scamming. If it's not allowed
in the rule books, we're here to cover it. And
this week's conversation certainly fits the bill. A story of
a regular college student just trying to score a touchdown
all right onto the show. So people asked me that
(00:50):
I think I was gonna get away without being caught,
and I was like, no, of course, and it was
gonna be get caught. And I kept getting asked the
question by various police officers, like yeah, is it worthing
we spend the night in jail. I didn't really thinking.
I was just kind of smiling ear to hear. This
is Jason lane cal a decade ago, JAS pulled off
one of the greatest streaks in college football history. So
(01:17):
it was my senior year of college at the University
of Arizona. It was full semester of two eleven, and
I'm like, you know what on this little blip on
the radar oft students that are here. But when we
do this senior prank, just to do something memorable, you know,
just something I could do. I yeah, I did this
this one time after consulting the schedule Jase Circle the
nationally televised night game on ESPN between the Arizona Wildcats
(01:41):
and the u c l A Bruins. My intention was
to get the football and stripped down and be able
to score touchdown. Anytime you see anybody round the field
for any nationally televised game, the cameras immediately offer them
and they don't want to condone that sort of thing.
You don't even know what's going on as a as
a spectator watching the game, So my intention was to
just have the camera army while I was streaming. Once
(02:03):
I came up with this idea, I was like, I
think I could do this. Jason's plan was to dress
up as a referee, run onto the field and stop
the game. He would then grab the ball and make
a mad dash for the end zone while removing all
of his clothes. And that's when I came up with
football season case off pretty soon after the semester starts. Honestly,
(02:27):
the first five home games or so, it was like recalling,
So every game was kind of piecing together, you know,
how I'd get on the field. When I started college,
my first major was sports venison, so I just knew
the outfit that they're wearing on the field, Kaki shorts
use a polo either red or blue, and the Nike
shoes because they're sponsored by Nike. But don't you need
(02:48):
some sort of official pass to get access to the field.
So I had a pass that I had made up
on the computer. So I kind of drew up this
pass that I made on Microsoft paint. It was red
and blue and had the U A on it. There
were some like mumbly numbers on the bottom of it,
you know, decimal points and all this stuff. And then
I went to Fetix Kinkoes and had it animated, and
(03:10):
I was like, I think this will do. And so
I was like, all right, I'm gonna need to look
a little bit more official here. So I went to
Goodwill and I was looking for a walkie talkie just
because I figured as I'm walking by security by milwaukie
talkie and I'm really into the conversation on Milwaukee Talkie.
Then you know they're gonna leave me alone. And where
do you even get a referee's outfit? I actually got
(03:30):
that from a grift shop. It was down the following time,
so it's pretty easy to find. I had photos of
the collegiate attire because that's different than the NFL reps.
So I find some stuff and I kind of look
at the photos and now that's that's not quite it.
So yeah, I found one that was pretty close. Made
a couple additions to it, you know, added the patch
he and they're payment some stuff on the hat. Yeah,
(03:53):
it was was pretty well flunt out. I wish I
should apply that to other aspects of my life. October eleven,
the day of the game. When I woke up that morning,
it was like, all right, I just get everything in order,
make sure you have everything ready to go. Everyone's doing
their beer pong and drinking and stuff. I'm sitting there
getting my outfit ready, drinking a red Bull and there's
(04:16):
all business. Before he heads to the game, there was
one final touch Jason had to do, so I went
down the straight tain because I had to live my
best on camera. Game time is six PM, and Jason
is accompanied by accomplices to film the game and provide support.
I just had my brother and another friend come with me.
I do you remember walking up to the stadium and
(04:38):
you can hear the roar of the crowd that was
already in there. That's when it really hid. And we
went up to our assigned seating section, and I had
no idea exactly when I was gonna make my way
to the field. There's kickoff, two minutes go by, five
minutes go by, ten minutes go by, and I'm just like,
all right, when am I going to do this? The
(05:00):
first quarter ends and Chase makes his way down to
the student section and from there there's just a ramp
down to the field, but their their security standing right there.
And again I was sort of getting that cold feet
mentality where I'm like just froze into the ground. And
then I walked down the ramp, walk right in from
the security guard on Milwaukee talkietending like yeah, yeah, I'll
(05:22):
be right there, Okay, yeah, the new more Gatorade. Yeah,
I got it, And there was no hold up there
at all. Once I felt the turf under my feet,
I was like, okay, I'm going to be lost in
in the crowd. Now, if you're watching a football game,
there are fift g players on the sideline and then
there are countless other trainers. Once I made it into
that jumble of people, I knew I was set. So
(05:44):
once I got down there, it sort of popped in
my mind to not do it while Arizona had the ball.
It just seemed like that could be a momentum swing.
So I wanted to do it while u c l
A had the ball, and there had to be this
perfect time where I was gonna make my new in
seemed to never come. That perfect time came with four
seconds left in the first half, with the ball at
(06:05):
their own forty three, U c l A calls the
time out, so it was like, Okay, now is the time.
Like Clark Kent going into a phone booth, Jas ducks
behind the Wildcats bench and quickly removes his athletic trainer disguise,
revealing a full referees outfit. He throws on a black
hat to punctuate the look. Just above him in the stands,
(06:26):
Jason's brother captures the stunt on his iPhone. Oh my god,
Oh my god. Once I was all wrapped up, had
the whistle in the mouth. I had to kind of
weave in and out of people to get in there.
The u c l A quarterback, Kevin Prince, drops back
to pass and uh, I start blowing the whistle. So
I did the tweet tweet to stop the play, waved
(06:48):
my arms over my head. All twenty two players on
the field stop in their tracks. Once the players stopped,
there's a certain umpire that comes up and actually gets
the ball from the quarterback, and so I run up
to him trying to get the ball. And what do
you say to the ref there? Um? I just remember
saying ball, ball, ball, ball, and he's like, what are
(07:09):
you doing? Like, no, this is my job. And then
he kind of looked me up and down and he shouts,
get out of here. And that's when I knew the
jig was up. On the ESPN broadcast, you can see
Jay's tear off making a bee line for the end zone.
His pants and shirt rip off easily, revealing a white
speed out underneath. I had cut up the legs and
(07:29):
not the arm in the side of the whole red
outfit and then just loosely stitched it back together like
maybe five stitches for the whole shirt. Written on his
back in large black letters is a message. It was
my Twitter handle, which I don't even use Twitter, and
I didn't then what someone was like when you should
put who is Jason? It will be like a like
(07:50):
a hashtag that mic go viral. So that's what I had.
I had at who is Jason? That someone wrote in
sharp beat? And what was it like when you were
finally streaking down the field that through all this planning,
it was just kind of a you know, for lack
of a better word, like surreal moment, just because it
was like, I thought office for so long, I'm actually
(08:13):
springing down a fool right now, And yeah, it was
kind of been just in my own little world at
that moment, all right. Piercing Jason's serenity is a blindside
hit from a police officer. Two other officers pile on
and subdued Jason, pressing his face into the turf. I
got tackled wearing the speedo, so I was faced down
(08:36):
getting cuffed. So I see the students section going nuts,
and then I hear it even louder, and I see
everyone's looking to the left, and I had no idea
what we're going on that point. As the referees huddle
to sort out the aborted play, the unsupervised players start
(08:57):
trash talking, drawing turns into pushing, and before you know it,
both benches storm onto the field. They're over a hundred
players in personnel in a massive brawl between the two teams.
Says the ESPN announced there mayhem has broken out at
the end of the first half, but Jason had more
pressing concerns. For a brief moment, when my hamburb behind
(09:18):
my back and they picked me up, I was like,
oh God, like, I can't move my hands to the
front to adjust myself if I need to. That was
my first thought when I got up. So I looked
down really quick and I'm like, okay, I'm not poking
out anywhere. Jason's removed from the field, past the halftime
performers and into the tunnel as the crowd goes wild,
(09:45):
and so there are a bunch of cops are down there,
and they seemed pretty ticked off at me just because
I had interrupted the game. Once they realized, you know,
I wasn't drunken beligerent, they relaxed quite a bit. Jason's
tossed in a patty wagon and shuttled to the local jail.
(10:10):
I've never been in any trouble before with the law,
so I was just along for the ride. At that point,
I'm like, oh cool, I'm getting too different and oh wow,
love shot with booking complete. He's tossed in a cell
with twenty other people. So I was in this large
(10:31):
hole and pen I'd overheard one of the corrections officers
talking to a group of other corrections officers and he's like, yeah,
this guy of just ran out there and like gropped
off his clothes. And I was like, excuse me, officer offer,
and they all look over at me, and they just
kind of give me this like like what the hell
do you want? And I was like, that was me,
(10:53):
and they all immediately kind of walk over and they're
like wait, no, wait, that was you, and their demeanor
totally changed. And it was a weird, a weird moment
because obviously everyone else that's sitting in my situation is
having a bad night. But I was just kind of
smiling ear to hear, and how did you pass the
(11:14):
time when you were in jail? They had achieving there
maybe like a screen sitting on wheels, and I see
that as on ESPN, and I saw that there was
a promo that the U u c l A game
was coming on at midnight, and I was like, no, why,
this is so cool about to be watching the game
right now and I'm waiting for the moment. And yeah,
(11:37):
I see myself run out, and you know, I had
no idea what it was going to look like on
the actual ESPN broadcast, and it was quick, you know,
I run out and I'm off and I guess that's
that was good enough. And did you have any sense
of what you were in for when you were in jail.
I did not know how long I'd be there. I
figured overnight. So yeah, I stlept flum my shoe and
(11:59):
got out like eight in the morning. So my friend
picks me up and I get in. So she just
hands me her phone and she was like, just scroll
and so I just started scrowing her Facebook. Every single
post was like about the streaker. And then UH walked
through the front door of my house and my roommates
were watching ESPN and it was me on the tv.
(12:22):
It was kind of a ruling right off the get go.
I did an interview with the local news and different outlets.
Jim Kimmel Alive reached out like two days afterwards and
I did an interview with him, So that was that
was a pretty cool part that will always be able
to have and show people. Unlike Kim All, the Arizona
p D was not amused by the stunt. They threw
the book at Jason, charging him with a Class six
(12:43):
felony for criminal impersonation. Like I said, I had never
been in trouble before. I didn't really think in or
what kind of ramifications that could have and I was like, oh, yeah,
whatever and now looking back, but still it was pretty
nuts that that was the first charge that I had
right off the battle was the classics phony for criminal
person Asian for running on the field. And how did
your parents react to this whole thing? My mom did
(13:05):
not talk to me for at least a week, and
she's the best, most loving mother in the world. That
was a huge shock to me that she wouldn't even
answer or return my call. Meanwhile, my dad is telling
me about, you know, how this could affect in my
future and that I need to apologize to the dean
to be able to graduate. And then at the end
of the conversation. Don't tell you long on this, but
(13:27):
I thought that was really funny. And what about the
school administration? How were they handling all of this. I
started getting wind from different people that the university might
not let me even graduate. So I took the advice
of my dad and I sent the dean an email
and kind of detailing my apology. And that wasn't my
attention to get this national attention. And I checked my
(13:49):
email every day and never received anything at all. I
just figured, all right, they have swept it under the rug.
I guess. Six weeks later, I got a reply to
that email said, Jason, if you would please meet me
in this building at this time, and that was it.
I had no idea what to think going into this meeting.
So I give a nice stress shirt on go to
(14:13):
this meeting. So walk in and she's sitting there at
the desk and she says, please close the door behind you,
and she has this stern face, and I'm like, oh, no,
this is not good, but close the door. And she's like,
go ahead and take a seat. And she's sitting behind
her desk this whole time. So take a seat, and
(14:33):
she is looking at a computer screen and she slowly
swivels it around and it was the YouTube video. Paused says,
now that the door is closed, I can tell you
that this was funny. I'm gonna let you graduate, and
at that moment, just all the relief in the world
washed right over me. In the end, Jason's felony charge
was knocked down to misdemeanor trespassing. And these days James
(14:57):
works for the University of Arizona as a wild biologist,
living into some even nearly ten years later, I'll meet
someone here in town and then they'll find out that
I was the guy who ran on the field. And
when they start saying, oh my gosh, that's up that
game or I watched that game, they have, you know,
a hundred questions once exactly you know how I did it?
(15:19):
Why did it? It turned out in the end to
just be something that I could have for myself. I
wasn't trying to go viral or or anything like that.
It was just for the story. It's a story that
I can tell again and again. And that was the
point of it, was to have the story that I'll
be able to tell. I'm always going to have that
(15:44):
all right, that is it for today. Thank you to
James for sharing his story. Hope you were inspired and
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Chris had we do this week? Maddie, good job, keep
up to good work. Cow Thanks Chris. All right, talk
(16:04):
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you listen to your favorite shows. Yeah
Welcome to Trickeration, a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome
back to the Trickeration podcast, the number one podcast about
deception in sports. Honest conversations about dishonest acts is what
we're all about. Here. I'm your host, Matt bringing you
your weekly dose of sports nonsense, deep dives into acts
(00:24):
of cheating, scheming, pranking, hoaxing, scamming. If it's not allowed
in the rule books, we're here to cover it. And
this week's conversation certainly fits the bill. A story of
a regular college student just trying to score a touchdown
all right onto the show. So people asked me that
(00:50):
I think I was gonna get away without being caught,
and I was like, no, of course, and it was
gonna be get caught. And I kept getting asked the
question by various police officers, like yeah, is it worthing
we spend the night in jail. I didn't really thinking.
I was just kind of smiling ear to hear. This
is Jason lane cal a decade ago, JAS pulled off
one of the greatest streaks in college football history. So
(01:17):
it was my senior year of college at the University
of Arizona. It was full semester of two eleven, and
I'm like, you know what on this little blip on
the radar oft students that are here. But when we
do this senior prank, just to do something memorable, you know,
just something I could do. I yeah, I did this
this one time after consulting the schedule Jase Circle the
nationally televised night game on ESPN between the Arizona Wildcats
(01:41):
and the u c l A Bruins. My intention was
to get the football and stripped down and be able
to score touchdown. Anytime you see anybody round the field
for any nationally televised game, the cameras immediately offer them
and they don't want to condone that sort of thing.
You don't even know what's going on as a as
a spectator watching the game, So my intention was to
just have the camera army while I was streaming. Once
(02:03):
I came up with this idea, I was like, I
think I could do this. Jason's plan was to dress
up as a referee, run onto the field and stop
the game. He would then grab the ball and make
a mad dash for the end zone while removing all
of his clothes. And that's when I came up with
football season case off pretty soon after the semester starts. Honestly,
(02:27):
the first five home games or so, it was like recalling,
So every game was kind of piecing together, you know,
how I'd get on the field. When I started college,
my first major was sports venison, so I just knew
the outfit that they're wearing on the field, Kaki shorts
use a polo either red or blue, and the Nike
shoes because they're sponsored by Nike. But don't you need
(02:48):
some sort of official pass to get access to the field.
So I had a pass that I had made up
on the computer. So I kind of drew up this
pass that I made on Microsoft paint. It was red
and blue and had the U A on it. There
were some like mumbly numbers on the bottom of it,
you know, decimal points and all this stuff. And then
I went to Fetix Kinkoes and had it animated, and
(03:10):
I was like, I think this will do. And so
I was like, all right, I'm gonna need to look
a little bit more official here. So I went to
Goodwill and I was looking for a walkie talkie just
because I figured as I'm walking by security by milwaukie
talkie and I'm really into the conversation on Milwaukee Talkie.
Then you know they're gonna leave me alone. And where
do you even get a referee's outfit? I actually got
(03:30):
that from a grift shop. It was down the following time,
so it's pretty easy to find. I had photos of
the collegiate attire because that's different than the NFL reps.
So I find some stuff and I kind of look
at the photos and now that's that's not quite it.
So yeah, I found one that was pretty close. Made
a couple additions to it, you know, added the patch
he and they're payment some stuff on the hat. Yeah,
(03:53):
it was was pretty well flunt out. I wish I
should apply that to other aspects of my life. October eleven,
the day of the game. When I woke up that morning,
it was like, all right, I just get everything in order,
make sure you have everything ready to go. Everyone's doing
their beer pong and drinking and stuff. I'm sitting there
getting my outfit ready, drinking a red Bull and there's
(04:16):
all business. Before he heads to the game, there was
one final touch Jason had to do, so I went
down the straight tain because I had to live my
best on camera. Game time is six PM, and Jason
is accompanied by accomplices to film the game and provide support.
I just had my brother and another friend come with me.
I do you remember walking up to the stadium and
(04:38):
you can hear the roar of the crowd that was
already in there. That's when it really hid. And we
went up to our assigned seating section, and I had
no idea exactly when I was gonna make my way
to the field. There's kickoff, two minutes go by, five
minutes go by, ten minutes go by, and I'm just like,
all right, when am I going to do this? The
(05:00):
first quarter ends and Chase makes his way down to
the student section and from there there's just a ramp
down to the field, but their their security standing right there.
And again I was sort of getting that cold feet
mentality where I'm like just froze into the ground. And
then I walked down the ramp, walk right in from
the security guard on Milwaukee talkietending like yeah, yeah, I'll
(05:22):
be right there, Okay, yeah, the new more Gatorade. Yeah,
I got it, And there was no hold up there
at all. Once I felt the turf under my feet,
I was like, okay, I'm going to be lost in
in the crowd. Now, if you're watching a football game,
there are fift g players on the sideline and then
there are countless other trainers. Once I made it into
that jumble of people, I knew I was set. So
(05:44):
once I got down there, it sort of popped in
my mind to not do it while Arizona had the ball.
It just seemed like that could be a momentum swing.
So I wanted to do it while u c l
A had the ball, and there had to be this
perfect time where I was gonna make my new in
seemed to never come. That perfect time came with four
seconds left in the first half, with the ball at
(06:05):
their own forty three, U c l A calls the
time out, so it was like, Okay, now is the time.
Like Clark Kent going into a phone booth, Jas ducks
behind the Wildcats bench and quickly removes his athletic trainer disguise,
revealing a full referees outfit. He throws on a black
hat to punctuate the look. Just above him in the stands,
(06:26):
Jason's brother captures the stunt on his iPhone. Oh my god,
Oh my god. Once I was all wrapped up, had
the whistle in the mouth. I had to kind of
weave in and out of people to get in there.
The u c l A quarterback, Kevin Prince, drops back
to pass and uh, I start blowing the whistle. So
I did the tweet tweet to stop the play, waved
(06:48):
my arms over my head. All twenty two players on
the field stop in their tracks. Once the players stopped,
there's a certain umpire that comes up and actually gets
the ball from the quarterback, and so I run up
to him trying to get the ball. And what do
you say to the ref there? Um? I just remember
saying ball, ball, ball, ball, and he's like, what are
(07:09):
you doing? Like, no, this is my job. And then
he kind of looked me up and down and he shouts,
get out of here. And that's when I knew the
jig was up. On the ESPN broadcast, you can see
Jay's tear off making a bee line for the end zone.
His pants and shirt rip off easily, revealing a white
speed out underneath. I had cut up the legs and
(07:29):
not the arm in the side of the whole red
outfit and then just loosely stitched it back together like
maybe five stitches for the whole shirt. Written on his
back in large black letters is a message. It was
my Twitter handle, which I don't even use Twitter, and
I didn't then what someone was like when you should
put who is Jason? It will be like a like
(07:50):
a hashtag that mic go viral. So that's what I had.
I had at who is Jason? That someone wrote in
sharp beat? And what was it like when you were
finally streaking down the field that through all this planning,
it was just kind of a you know, for lack
of a better word, like surreal moment, just because it
was like, I thought office for so long, I'm actually
(08:13):
springing down a fool right now, And yeah, it was
kind of been just in my own little world at
that moment, all right. Piercing Jason's serenity is a blindside
hit from a police officer. Two other officers pile on
and subdued Jason, pressing his face into the turf. I
got tackled wearing the speedo, so I was faced down
(08:36):
getting cuffed. So I see the students section going nuts,
and then I hear it even louder, and I see
everyone's looking to the left, and I had no idea
what we're going on that point. As the referees huddle
to sort out the aborted play, the unsupervised players start
(08:57):
trash talking, drawing turns into pushing, and before you know it,
both benches storm onto the field. They're over a hundred
players in personnel in a massive brawl between the two teams.
Says the ESPN announced there mayhem has broken out at
the end of the first half, but Jason had more
pressing concerns. For a brief moment, when my hamburb behind
(09:18):
my back and they picked me up, I was like,
oh God, like, I can't move my hands to the
front to adjust myself if I need to. That was
my first thought when I got up. So I looked
down really quick and I'm like, okay, I'm not poking
out anywhere. Jason's removed from the field, past the halftime
performers and into the tunnel as the crowd goes wild,
(09:45):
and so there are a bunch of cops are down there,
and they seemed pretty ticked off at me just because
I had interrupted the game. Once they realized, you know,
I wasn't drunken beligerent, they relaxed quite a bit. Jason's
tossed in a patty wagon and shuttled to the local jail.
(10:10):
I've never been in any trouble before with the law,
so I was just along for the ride. At that point,
I'm like, oh cool, I'm getting too different and oh wow,
love shot with booking complete. He's tossed in a cell
with twenty other people. So I was in this large
(10:31):
hole and pen I'd overheard one of the corrections officers
talking to a group of other corrections officers and he's like, yeah,
this guy of just ran out there and like gropped
off his clothes. And I was like, excuse me, officer offer,
and they all look over at me, and they just
kind of give me this like like what the hell
do you want? And I was like, that was me,
(10:53):
and they all immediately kind of walk over and they're
like wait, no, wait, that was you, and their demeanor
totally changed. And it was a weird, a weird moment
because obviously everyone else that's sitting in my situation is
having a bad night. But I was just kind of
smiling ear to hear, and how did you pass the
(11:14):
time when you were in jail? They had achieving there
maybe like a screen sitting on wheels, and I see
that as on ESPN, and I saw that there was
a promo that the U u c l A game
was coming on at midnight, and I was like, no, why,
this is so cool about to be watching the game
right now and I'm waiting for the moment. And yeah,
(11:37):
I see myself run out, and you know, I had
no idea what it was going to look like on
the actual ESPN broadcast, and it was quick, you know,
I run out and I'm off and I guess that's
that was good enough. And did you have any sense
of what you were in for when you were in jail.
I did not know how long I'd be there. I
figured overnight. So yeah, I stlept flum my shoe and
(11:59):
got out like eight in the morning. So my friend
picks me up and I get in. So she just
hands me her phone and she was like, just scroll
and so I just started scrowing her Facebook. Every single
post was like about the streaker. And then UH walked
through the front door of my house and my roommates
were watching ESPN and it was me on the tv.
(12:22):
It was kind of a ruling right off the get go.
I did an interview with the local news and different outlets.
Jim Kimmel Alive reached out like two days afterwards and
I did an interview with him, So that was that
was a pretty cool part that will always be able
to have and show people. Unlike Kim All, the Arizona
p D was not amused by the stunt. They threw
the book at Jason, charging him with a Class six
(12:43):
felony for criminal impersonation. Like I said, I had never
been in trouble before. I didn't really think in or
what kind of ramifications that could have and I was like, oh, yeah,
whatever and now looking back, but still it was pretty
nuts that that was the first charge that I had
right off the battle was the classics phony for criminal
person Asian for running on the field. And how did
your parents react to this whole thing? My mom did
(13:05):
not talk to me for at least a week, and
she's the best, most loving mother in the world. That
was a huge shock to me that she wouldn't even
answer or return my call. Meanwhile, my dad is telling
me about, you know, how this could affect in my
future and that I need to apologize to the dean
to be able to graduate. And then at the end
of the conversation. Don't tell you long on this, but
(13:27):
I thought that was really funny. And what about the
school administration? How were they handling all of this. I
started getting wind from different people that the university might
not let me even graduate. So I took the advice
of my dad and I sent the dean an email
and kind of detailing my apology. And that wasn't my
attention to get this national attention. And I checked my
(13:49):
email every day and never received anything at all. I
just figured, all right, they have swept it under the rug.
I guess. Six weeks later, I got a reply to
that email said, Jason, if you would please meet me
in this building at this time, and that was it.
I had no idea what to think going into this meeting.
So I give a nice stress shirt on go to
(14:13):
this meeting. So walk in and she's sitting there at
the desk and she says, please close the door behind you,
and she has this stern face, and I'm like, oh, no,
this is not good, but close the door. And she's like,
go ahead and take a seat. And she's sitting behind
her desk this whole time. So take a seat, and
(14:33):
she is looking at a computer screen and she slowly
swivels it around and it was the YouTube video. Paused says,
now that the door is closed, I can tell you
that this was funny. I'm gonna let you graduate, and
at that moment, just all the relief in the world
washed right over me. In the end, Jason's felony charge
was knocked down to misdemeanor trespassing. And these days James
(14:57):
works for the University of Arizona as a wild biologist,
living into some even nearly ten years later, I'll meet
someone here in town and then they'll find out that
I was the guy who ran on the field. And
when they start saying, oh my gosh, that's up that
game or I watched that game, they have, you know,
a hundred questions once exactly you know how I did it?
(15:19):
Why did it? It turned out in the end to
just be something that I could have for myself. I
wasn't trying to go viral or or anything like that.
It was just for the story. It's a story that
I can tell again and again. And that was the
point of it, was to have the story that I'll
be able to tell. I'm always going to have that
(15:44):
all right, that is it for today. Thank you to
James for sharing his story. Hope you were inspired and
enjoyed the story, and thanks to all the listeners. If
you're liking the show, please take a minute to rate
and review on iTunes. And as we do every week,
we check in with the legend Chris, Matt, Doug Russo,
Chris had we do this week? Maddie, good job, keep
up to good work. Cow Thanks Chris. All right, talk
(16:04):
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