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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThis postseason, I've decided to add a fourth criterion: Fans doing crazy shit.\n\nI'm not talking about gimmicky, pre-packaged fan antics (see: The Rally Monkey) or even funny and spontaneous crowd chants (\"Who's... Your... Daddy!!!\"). I'm talking about individual fans doing something no one in their right mind should ever consider doing in or near the field of play. Like the guy who bathed in the centerfield fountain at Angels Stadium, or the Twins fan who couldn't bear to say goodbye to the Metrodome without first dry humping the \"baggy.\"\n\nLove it or hate it, fans storming the field is the essence of sports. It's unscripted and unpredictable. Otherwise ordinary people\u2014guys who wake up and go to normal jobs like the rest of us\u2014are rendered momentarily insane, either out of boredom or obsession or exhibitionism or some combination. There's also something charming, something populist, about fans stealing the spotlight. The naked guy in the tube socks eluding security becomes our emissary. We become the attraction, if just for a moment, while the high-paid stars and announcers stand around gawking or laughing or judging us. It's a reminder that we're not merely passive recipients of our games.\n\nWe've pulled together ten of our favorite field-storming moments. Viva la fan!:\n\n[NOTE: We didn't include creepy or violent fans-on-the-field incidents, because, well, even we recognize that they're terrible and they're definitely not funny. Like this guy. Because of him no one can ever make fun of Monica Seles's pipsqueaky sex grunt noises ever again.]\n\n10. See you in Siberia, comrade\n\nAs both teams line up for a penalty kick, a Russian man storms the field and scores one for Mother Russia. He then runs the length of the field in a well-deserved victory lap, trailed not far behind by his shit-talking, spandex-wearing, vodka-soaked homeboys. For these guys' sakes, I really hope Putin wasn't rooting for the other team.\n\n9. Morganna, The Kissing Bandit\n\nIn the 1970s and '80s, baseball players across the country were besieged by an unlikely stalker: the well-endowed (60-23-39... that's right: 60-23-39) stripper Morganna \"The Kissing Bandit\" Roberts. The Kissing Bandit planted a fat one on the lips of baseball's greats\u2014Cal Ripken Jr., Johnny Bench, Steve Garvey, Don Mattingly, Nolan Ryan, and others. Not that they seemed to mind: George Brett once reportedly returned the favor at a Morganna stripshow. Judging from the pictures, it's a good thing these guys wear cups.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n 8. Fans fighting over Rafa and Federer\n\nFor some reason, tennis seems to bring out the real crazies. The Federer-Nadal battle royale took on a new dimension in 2009, with the two now competing for male super-fan stalker attacks. Federer's claim came at this year's French Open final, where professional self-promoter Jimmy Jump (as in, jump celebrities to get on camera) chased Federer around the court in an attempt to put a red FC Barcelona flag on his head. (At least it wasn't a Von Dutch hat.) A couple months later at the US Open, Rafael Nadal looked up see a guy coming in for a big one. Rafa's response? \"He was a nice guy. He said, 'I love you.'\" Advantage, Nadal.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n7. That's one way to get your picture in the paper\n\nNever mind that a hundred security guards were a trigger-pull from taking them out. All teenagers Britt Gaston and Cliff Courtney knew was they wanted to be the first to congratulate Hammerin' Hank Aaron when he broke Babe Ruth's homerun record. The slugger had been receiving death threats for years, but apparently the kids didn't know or care about any of that. They just loved baseball, they loved Hank, and they wanted to congratulate him in person. Sweet, if a bit dumb.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n6. Proof that the band matters\n\nIt takes a lot for one moment to earn the definite article, to forever be known as \"The Play.\" It takes two blood rivals, teams that could lose every game in the season but beat the other and call it a successful year. It takes a crazy, totally unscripted miracle, the game on the line as time expires. It takes an announcer running out of adjectives to describe what he just witnessed (\"The most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football\"). And, of course, it takes the Stanford band blundering onto the field before the final whistle.\n\n5. Protecting the win\n\nFor as long as anyone could remember, the Bengals were the worst team in football. Nobody even called them the Bengals anymore; they were the Bungles. Then in 2005 they were somehow good. Of course it wouldn't last, and this guy surely knew it. His team was holding onto a one-score lead late in the game, with Brett Favre and the visiting Packers driving down the field. Favre drops to pass but the play is whistled dead. Out of nowhere, this guy steals the ball from Favre's hand and takes off with it. He makes it to the far endzone before paying the price (someone give that security guard a uniform!).\n\n4. Show 'em what you got!\n\nSomehow we've made it this far in the list without anyone getting naked... In a 2007 MLS exhibition game between the L.A. Galaxy and Vancouver Whitecaps, fans were treated to this guy's white cheeks. He's a study in how to streak. Always keep your shoes and socks on. Be sure to dodge the ball thrown at your head. Up the ick-factor by removing your pants while in mid-stride Odd how only the women security guards chase him\u2014kind of like an A body wash commercial. The exception, inexplicably, is the one Galaxy player who runs in for a closer look.\n\n3. Streaking gone wrong\n\nIn a 2002 NHL game in Calgary, a would-be streaker climbed over the glass and made a go for it. But he made one serious mistake: He kept his socks on and, not surprisingly, took a nasty spill and knocked himself unconscious. Out cold and buck naked, he lay on the ice for five minutes while doctors revived him. I never thought I'd say this, but this guy found a way to take the dignity out of streaking.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n2. Shaking his money-maker\n\nIt must be the cold, cause Canadian sports fans sure know how to amuse themselves. At a CFL game in September, a fan does his best Gael Mackie [http://www.gaelmackie.net/] routine on the uprights. It seems nobody really noticed him until he was swinging 40 feet above the end zone. He slowly descends, like he's working a greased pole, then tightropes across the upright as security guards attempt to grab him.\n\n1. Fan Man descends from the heavens\n\nWith Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe pummeling each other for the title of heavyweight champion of the world, a man wearing a red jumpsuit and an industrial size fan strapped to his back descended from the skies above. \"Fan Man,\" as he would become known, made a habit of crashing big parties\u2014an L.A. Raiders game, a World Cup soccer match, Buckingham Palace. Probably not the best idea to break up a title fight between two of the world's fiercest men: The crowd mauled Fan Man and sent him to the hospital\u2014definitive proof that once even a so-called Fan Man crosses that sacred barrier and makes himself the center of attention, all bets are off."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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