![]() So he and Schaffer watched the first half, then The Weeknd’s halftime show, then the third quarter when the Bucs scored 10 points. But Andrade, who had never been to a Super Bowl, said, “If I’m going to the Super Bowl, I’m going to see the Super Bowl.” Zdorovetskiy wanted him to make the run in the first quarter. “So I could fall asleep in jail.”Īt the stadium, he put on a blue mask and bought a Bud Lite. In the other, he stashed a handful of melatonin tablets. In one pocket, he put $2,000 cash - bail money. He pulled a red shirt and black gym shorts over the bathing suit, laced up the new neon green Under Armour sneakers he hoped “The Rock” would notice. The Bible verse says: “Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer.” The thong, he said, gave him a painful wedgie. His tattoo, Revelation 2:10, stretched between the straps. In the hotel bathroom, Andrade squeezed into a hot pink women’s swimsuit with Zdorovetskiy’s website emblazoned across the chest. Each time, security stopped him before he got to the gridiron - once before he even sat in his seat. His adult website, “Vitality Uncensored,” features “nude party videos, pranks & more!” “It’s art,” he said.ĭuring the last four Super Bowls, he dropped $80,000 on tickets and tried to streak across the field. He has 620,000 followers on Twitter and is reported to have a net worth of $7 million. His YouTube channel has more than 10 million subscribers. “It’s an adrenaline rush,” Zdorovetskiy said. He spent five days in an Egyptian prison for scaling a pyramid. He’s been arrested for climbing the “D” in the Hollywood sign. He sprinted across the pitch at the 2014 World Cup Final, onto the court at the 2016 NBA finals, across the field at the 2017 World Series. Zdorovetskiy runs a YouTube channel where he pranks people and stages stunts at sporting events. Andrade helps manage his mother’s landscape and janitorial companies. They met as teenagers at Boca Raton High, and both still live in that area. ![]() On Tuesday, outside California Pizza Kitchen in Tampa, they shared their story. ![]() More than 96 million people caught a glimpse of their prank live on CBS. ![]() We will continue to make sure that any publicity stunts or ill-intended behavior cannot adversely affect the outcome of a player’s wager.Others want to know who the troublemakers were, why they wanted to streak across the field and how they did it. “Our players have always trusted us to ensure the integrity of all props offered in our sportsbook. “Bovada identified some betting irregularities on our Super Bowl prop ‘will a fan run onto the field during the game?,’” said Bovada Communications Director Ross Stevens. Ultimately, it looks as though Andrade’s plan to bet on himself won’t end up in the big payday that he had hoped for, but it appears he came closer to success than many initially suspected. ![]() Perez wrote that one bettor who said he had no prior knowledge of the stunt had already had his account shut down by Bovada. Perez at Front Office Sports, Bovada was working to identify accounts that knew of Andrade’s planned stunt.Īccording to Perez, Bovada is refunding those that wagered there would not be a fan on the field during the game and paying out winning bets for accounts that were not linked to early knowledge of Andrade’s plan. ![]()
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