Before the Armed Forces Bowl between Rice football and Texas State kicked off at Amon G. Carter Stadium on Friday, Jan. 2, two parachutists did not make it onto the field in Fort Worth, Texas.
According to Keff Ciardello of the San Antonio Express-News, one parachutist landed outside of the stadium while the other, as shown in the video below, landed behind the end zone and onto the portion of the field that separates the stands from the field. No injuries resulted from the incident among those who were standing on the ground behind the end zone.
‘The parachutist immediately got up and off the field on his own power and no one on the ground was injured,’ a spokesperson for the Armed Forces Bowl told USA TODAY Sports.
This isn’t the first time a parachuting execution went wrong this bowl season.
Texas State is currently leading Rice 34-7 in the fourth quarter of the Armed Forces Bowl at the time of this writing.
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