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Great Moments in Confused Skydiving [Whimsy]
Great Moments in Confused Skydiving [Whimsy]
The Tar Heels football program planned to kick off their season in style yesterday. UNC hired a pair of skydivers to descend from above and deliver the game ball prior to their match-up with McNeese State. Fans and organizers waited in breathless anticipation for their arrival. Only the skydivers never showed. Why? Because they mistakenly dropped into Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium eight miles ...
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Skydiver, Duke, North Carolina, Mix-up, Video
NESW Sports, Sports Videos — ... Duke and North Carolina are just miles apart, well this Skydiver drops down on the wrong stadium. He was supposed to drop down on the UNC campus, but he crashed the Duke game. This really did happen. Hat tip to Deadspin via ...

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Friends of the Program — ... We use the same joke as the fat middle-aged data entry clerk in your office when you ask her how her day is going (even though you really don’t care) to bring you our favorite links from the weekend… Skydivers, meaning to land at UNC, instead land 8 miles away…at Duke. Fanhouse recaps college football’s week one…Clemson fans might want to turn away. Some newspaper front pages from the weekend of college football. Texas A&M…FAIL The Republican VP ...

The Hub: September 1, 2008
Comcast SportsNet New England » Wicked Good Sports — ... North Carolina’s football program planned to kick off their season in style yesterday. UNC hired a pair of skydivers to descend from above and deliver the game ball prior to their match-up with McNeese State. Fans and organizers waited in breathless anticipation for their arrival. Only the skydivers never showed. Why? Because they mistakenly dropped into the game between Duke and James Madison, eight miles down the road. (H/T to Deadspin) ...

Skydiving and Sports Don't Mix
Unprofessional Foul — ... , the number of skydiving fatalities since 2004 is 302. In addition to the potential for dying, there is also the potential for idiocy, as these fellows can attest. Unfortunately, yesterday in France we saw a bit of both. ...

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