The Green Bay Packers are known for having one of the most diehard fanbases in all of football. Heck, each and every one of them is kind of a part-owner, as the team is the only community-owned franchise in the NFL.
Well, this weekend, one Packers part-owner accidentally lost his game ticket when it slipped out of his fingers and through a sewer grate. You can probably guess what happened next.
From the YouTube upload description:
I was at the Packers vs Cowboys game with a group of friends. It was one of my friends’ first Packers game. We were in line waiting to go into the game when we were on top of a sewer. The friend whose first game it was pretends to drop his ticket near the sewer, pretty much taunting the karma Gods. Turns out, he actually loses grip of the ticket and it slowly falls through the sewer and into the sewage.
Without hesitation we open the sewer lid and hops in, he digs his foot at the ticket and grabs it all while a cop watches on. Feared he may be arrested after this, however the cop replied, “275 Packers games and I’ve never seen something like this.”
Maybe the best part of this video is the cop’s reaction, which is basically along the lines of, “Arrest you? Are you kidding? You just jumped into a sewer and now have to remain in public. I think you punished yourself enough.”
Such an incident brings up a great question and is really the greatest test of validating someone’s fandom — would you be willing to jump into a poop-filled sewer to recover admission to your favorite team’s game?
Personally, I might if it was a playoff game. Even then I’d probably have to think long and hard about it. But to see the Packers take on the 4-8 Dallas Cowboys with Matt Cassel at the helm? No thanks, I think I’ll stay sewage-free and head to the nearest warm bar to get nice and drunk while I watched the game on TV. If that makes me a bad fan, so be it.
