The Super Stunt Revisisted: How Pranksters Nearly Pulled Off Greatest Media Prank Ever
From Esquire Magazine:
Fifteen years ago, during the halftime show of the Super Bowl between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears, four improv comedians nearly pulled off what would have been the greatest media prank of all time.
In order to pull off the Super Stunt, as Hargrave named the operation, the team would need to smuggle 2,250 lights into a Level-One (that’s as high as it gets) national-security event—in advance—and stash them in the bowels of Dolphin Stadium until halftime of the big game. On the day of the Super Bowl, they would infiltrate the stadium posing as event staff, with fake IDs and uniforms, and hand off the sequenced lights to the fans. All of this would be done under the eyes of stadium security, multiple state and federal law-enforcement agencies, hundreds of uniformed police officers, and 3,000 additional security personnel.
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