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DYK than an 11 year old boy almost died in NFL halftime show gone awry?
Posted on 12/14/21 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 12/14/21 at 9:54 pm
Video of the event
I can’t help but laugh at how the old time video just passes over the event like it was nothing and moves on the the result of the game.
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His parent’s owned a hot air balloon and were there to take part in the show that was going to promote the upcoming St. Paul Winter Carnival.
“They were going to launch a hot air balloon on a 200-foot tether, take it up and with somebody in it, take it down the length of the field and pull it back down,” said Bob Jasperson of Wings of the North Air Museum in Eden Prairie.
That was the plan anyway. But when the balloon didn’t lift off the frozen Met Stadium field with Snyder’s mom inside the basket, she soon jumped out — and her 11-year-old son jumped in.
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the rope connected to it somehow failed
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Unfortunately, the 11-year-old’s troubles were only just beginning. Not only was he flying into the path of the oncoming air traffic at MSP Airport, but he would disappear into the clouds. The Federal Aviation Administration took immediate action to close all air traffic while Snyder’s wayward balloon proceeded to the southeast.
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That’s when the basket tipped, catapulting Snyder into the river. Without his weight, the balloon then flew away unpiloted.
Snyder remembers the river landing. “It was filled with slush, so I was swimming through slush,” he said.
I can’t help but laugh at how the old time video just passes over the event like it was nothing and moves on the the result of the game.
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Posted on 12/14/21 at 9:59 pm to BPTiger
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“Ricky was cool and collected. He guided the balloon to a splashdown in the Minnesota River…and Ricky swam 25 yards to shore, where an unidentified motorist picked him up and took him back to the stadium, where one of the Vikings doctors checked him out and said, “He’s OK.”
Posted on 12/14/21 at 10:02 pm to BPTiger
Was it the Sugar Bowl where that chick kissed the concrete because she supposedly lied about her weight for a halftime bungee jump?
Posted on 12/14/21 at 10:03 pm to lsupride87
I bet the doctor was smoking a cigarette too
Posted on 12/14/21 at 10:19 pm to fightin tigers
That was the 1997 Super Bowl. News story in the link.
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Posted on 12/14/21 at 10:24 pm to fightin tigers
Years back we had Saints season tickets about 12 rows back around the 15 yard line. Right where the cheerleaders stood. They were doing some type of pyramid thing and the girl on top did the fall back thing where they catch her. But the people to catch her weren't there. I was a kid but I distinctly remember the sound of her hitting the concrete. The team docs and EMS were out there working on her and they didn't even stop play. She got carted off on that flatbed they use for the players.
This post was edited on 12/14/21 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 12/14/21 at 10:59 pm to BPTiger
Ironically, the Vikings would go on to play the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV at Tulane Stadium. That was when the Vikings hot air balloon crashed into the stands before the game. 
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Posted on 12/14/21 at 11:48 pm to jbgleason
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jbgleason
You OK, baw? You need somebody to talk to?
Posted on 12/15/21 at 3:42 am to BPTiger
I had never heard about that. Can’t believe there were no fatalities.
This post was edited on 12/15/21 at 3:44 am
Posted on 12/15/21 at 3:57 am to EastBankTiger
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Ironically, the Vikings would go on to play the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV at Tulane Stadium. That was when the Vikings hot air balloon crashed into the stands before the game.
I was at that game, My sister was in the halftime show, wearing a hoopskirt on a river-boat-looking float. It was cold and rainy and they drove this float halfway across the field before they noticed the damage it was doing to the field and stopped. Check out the field in the second-half highlights sometime.
I was also at the Saints game when the cannon when off and took that guys hand with it.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 4:18 am to EastBankTiger
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Ironically, the Vikings would go on to play the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV at Tulane Stadium. That was when the Vikings hot air balloon crashed into the stands before the game.
Remember last year, the Weeknd was almost abandoned in this series of golden corridors. Who would have known NFL halftimes were filled with so much near-death..?
Posted on 12/15/21 at 6:32 am to BPTiger
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can’t help but laugh at how the old time video just passes over the event like it was nothing and moves on the the result of the game.
The boy didn’t die.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:09 am to BPTiger
That looked fun. Football is an outdoor sport.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 9:10 am to BPTiger
My father n law was at that game He had Viking season tickets for 40+ years. He has his seats from Metropolitan Stadium, which are basically not much more than folding chairs, and his seats from the Metrodome. I'll see him next week.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 9:27 am to tgrfan87
I was a little kid and the rafters in the superdome caught on fire
I forgot why but I remember shite falling onto the field
I forgot why but I remember shite falling onto the field
Posted on 12/15/21 at 9:38 am to TheRouxGuru
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I was a little kid and the rafters in the superdome caught on fire
I forgot why but I remember shite falling onto the field
Fireworks, right? Melted a chunk of the astroturf.
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