Another example of fandom gone completely batshit crazy.

Actually, I'll give you two.

The first is from last Tuesday's All-Star Game in New York City, where an abject idiot went on Twitter and basically stated that, if he got 1,000 Retweets of the tweet he was posting, he was going to run on the field during the All-Star Game.

He did, he did, he got nailed by the security, and now faces a year in jail for it.  (Given the All-Star Game's apparent status as a High Profile National Security Event, I'm surprised it's not much longer...)

Now that the story has gone viral, why don't we have the NSA, since we know they're spying on everyone's Internet, decide that they're going to find all the fucking Internet Warriors who egged this SOB on and get them too?

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But that wasn't the one which I was going to do this post on.

That is reserved for Australia's State of Origin rugby series.

The State of Origin, for those who do not know, is a hallowed traditional rugby series.  A three-game series is played every summer (and now, an additional game for players under 20) between players born in Queensland and players born in New South Wales.

Fights are common, the games are contentious, and a lot of bragging rights go to the annual series winner.

So each side has won a game, and the third game is extremely tight going down to the final minutes of the 2nd half.

The score is 12-10 in favor of Queensland. 

A quick primer (not nearly for all cases) for those who might not have watched rugby in Australia before:

• A "try" (touching the ball down with force in the end zone) in National Rugby League in Australia is worth four points.  
• The "Extra Point" kick (after a try) is worth two.  
• If a penalty is committed, and the team infracted against wishes to do so, they can kick a penalty kick from spot of the foul for two points, should the goal be successful -- much like a field goal, except no holder.  
• A "drop goal", in which a player drop-kicks (not punts) the ball for a goal, is worth one point.  (This is often used by teams to try to break a tied match near the end.
• 2 halves, 40 minutes each.
• A team has six "tackles" in which to advance the ball unless a penalty is committed against them.

So Queensland is up by a penalty kick with about 4 1/2 minutes to play as this clip begins...

The real action begins about two minutes into the clip.  Queensland (colors are on the scoreboard you see at the bottom of the screen) is near the New South Wales end zone, but is on it's last tackle (it's sixth) with about 2 1/2 minutes to go.  It has five meters to try to advance the ball and touch it down to get a try.

All Hell breaks loose from there.

No one knows where this joker came from, but a fat streaker made his way all the way across the field to the direct point of attack for Queensland, and, as a result of all the chaos, with security tackling him, a try is scored.

The announcers do a very good job of explaining why there is, obviously, no try to score on that situation ("interference by an outside agent"), but there's a problem.

The rules of NRL rugby give the ball back to Queensland in a scrum, 10 meters out, with only the 2 1/2 minutes left, and a new set of six tackles.

Though New South Wales get the ball back eventually, Queensland holds them off to win the third game (and the 2013 State of Origin series), 12-10.

This guy, Wati Holmwood, is no stranger to the authorities of NRL football.  This is, in fact, the second time in two years he's disrupted a major rugby match in this manner.

In fact, it may be roughly the same thing that happened in the All-Star Game incident here in the United States -- this one might well have been a Facebook challenge, with parties willing to chip in for the fine.

He's probably going to be banned from Australian rugby -- fact is, he should've been the first time!

From what I've read, he's from the Northern Territory of Australia, and he's not particularly welcome anywhere -- been in trouble off and on basically his entire adult life.

This was apparently a year in coming.  He had tickets to last year's second State of Origin match.

But, and I can speak from quite a bit of experience on this type of manner, he takes his place in the annals of sport-fan madness.

At least these two guys were somewhat innocent -- I do begin to wonder, especially in light of our National Religion, when they won't be anymore.