Of course a fan ran on the field at Super Bowl 60 between Seahawks and Patriots [VIDEO]

A fan ran on the field during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl 60 between the Seahawks and the Patriots, right before the Pats scored their first touchdown.

A fan running onto the field is a Super Bowl side-ritual, a little burst of chaos baked into a game built on stoppages. The clock freezes, the stadium buzz turns into a point-and-laugh murmur, and everyone instantly knows what’s happening without seeing it. The broadcast goes monk-mode—tight shots, quick cuts, announcers talking around it—because the rule is always the same: don’t feed the attention machine.

I generally agree with it, but! It’s the Super Bowl. And it was just too fun not to look for.

It’s the weird modern loop: the league sells spectacle, the intruder hijacks spectacle, and the TV product pretends the spectacle never existed. Then, ten minutes later, the internet has the clip anyway, and the whole episode becomes a meme before the next snap even matters.