Believe it or not, the San Francisco 49ers fan who made headlines earlier this week for running onto the field in the middle of Monday night’s game between the Niners and St. Louis Rams was not intoxicated. His name is William, he’s 16 and he was at the game with his dad.
As you may have noticed from some of the footage, the streaker had his phone number written across his shirtless body. He told Lindsey Adler of Deadspin that his sister, who knew his intentions, wrote it for him. William’s father, however, was lied to just before his son did something incredibly stupid.
“I told him I was gonna go to the bathroom,” William said. “I said ‘I’ll be right back,’ then I just jumped and ran.”
Pops must have been angry about that, right? Not exactly.
“I thought he was gonna be mad, but he said he was proud of me. … My parents found it too funny,” William said.
Of course they did.
Because he is a minor, William was not arrested. He was simply placed in handcuffs and banned from Levi’s Stadium for a year. He’ll have to take an online class and write an apology letter if he wants to return to a 49ers game after that time.
And as for why he went down without a fight after security chased him, William says he had already accomplished his goal by that time.
“I thought they were gonna get me before I was even able to take off my shirt, so when I took it off I was like, ‘Wow I am still going. Where are they?’ he recalled. “Then I saw one blue guy coming, and I didn’t want to get tasered, so I just stopped.”
While we don’t agree with fans running onto the field or court during a sporting event, William’s decision did result in us getting one of the all-time great radio calls. For that, we thank him.
