Extra balls found on football field
John Sieglinger streaked across the football field on Saturday during halftime. -Serghei Trofimov | The East Carolinian
The stage was set. The sun had washed away the rain from days before, and members of the armed services accompanied the always faithful Purple and Gold, on this special occasion. All the while, ECU cheered full force to try and give the fighting Pirates an edge over conference foe USM.
But anyone that attended the Military Appreciation Day game left the stadium not thinking about how ECU was now three and two in Conference USA, or how they might respond to next week’s game to save a topsy-turvy season. Instead, the people that attended the game, which included students, faculty members, community members and Pirate fans from all over, left remembering one play that will forever be engraved in their memories.
On Nov. 5, John Sieglinger woke up and pre-gamed like many other football-goers in Pirate Nation. However, during the halftime show of the ECU versus USM football game, Sieglinger dropped his pants and shook what his mama gave him, to all 40,000 people in attendance.
Stripped down to just his underwear, Sieglinger stormed down the Boneyard steps, proceeded to “ninja jump” the fence onto the field, and stripped to just his birthday suit, beginning the party of a lifetime. As mixed reactions filled the stadium, Sieglinger took the show away from those in uniform, and put the spotlight on his goose chase around Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
“The crisp Greenville air caressing your nut sack as you run, there’s nothing like it,” said Sieglinger, as he described the feeling of true freedom of expression.
“I wanted to do it before it happened, and it felt so right at the time,” said Sieglinger. “I didn’t do it for attention, I did it because I just wanted to do it.”
Sieglinger said that before he attempted this feat of remembrance, he paid his friends in advance to bail him out after he got caught and escorted out of the stadium and into holding. But despite knowing his inevitable fate, Sieglinger knew that the only way to cross “streaking at a football game” off the bucket list hanging in his room was to actually streak at a football game. “Jumping into the bull pit, knowing you are going to get caught,” said Sieglinger. “Who gets away from that?”
“I was stunned because it was during the military ceremony, and then a naked man came running out,” said Dalton Bradford, junior criminal justice major. “It was something out of a movie, him running out and then the cops chasing him.”
Many people in the Greenville community have expressed their outraged opinions about Sieglinger’s streaking, not only because it was inappropriate and scarring for children, but also that it was during the middle of appreciating those military members in attendance. “The military, they fight for freedom, and what’s more free than running down the field buck naked,” said Sieglinger. “We’re on the same side.”
The way that Sieglinger lives his life is by his self-proclaimed motto, “You just got to do what you want to do and put your shoes on and go out and do it.”
Despite running across the field, doing the helicopter on the emblem in the middle of the field, and getting laid out by multiple security guards, Sieglinger looked back on the footrace and said, “I just did what everybody wants to do, but nobody has the balls to do.”
This writer can be contacted at lifestyles@theeastcarolinian.com.
Was this edited? We were playing USM, not SMU. Or were you blinded by the moon?
What do you mean? It said USM? Are you just blind period?
The paper ran it as “Southern Mississippi University.” The online version was corrected.
By the way, the military fights for our constitutional rights. I don’t recall them fighting for our right to break the law and expose yourself any way you please. You say you did it because ” I just wanted to do it”. Well I’d like to punch you in you’re face because now when I say “I went to ECU” you’re wants and desires are associated with my degree and what it “stands for”. Which today, is disgrace.
Lets be serious, a degree from EasyU does not “stand for” very much anyway
he doesnt go to ecu
Actually, the degree I received at East Carolina means quite a lot. Its troubling that you seem to so easily discount the academic merits of this University and its graduates. If you want to persist in trying to bad mouth the reputation of the university and the “value” of the degree its students earn here then at least have the courtesy to back up your statement. Taking cheap shots at the University and its Alumni for no other reason than you think it makes you seem clever serves no one’s interest, especially your own. With that being said, you are entitled to your own opinion but please remember its only YOUR opinion.
I have a BS in Business (’08) and an MBA in Finance (’11), both from ECU. I work for 1 of the top 3 IT companies in the world, and make bank doing it. My degrees stand for how hard I have worked to get where I am today, and I’m only 25. I’m proud to be an ECU alum-what does a streaker have to do with the education you get from ECU? You should be ashamed of yourself for such a comment. My guess is you went to NCSU or UNC because someone in your family went there, and now you’re living in your parents basement. PURPLE!
no you don’t…
Well said!!! GOLD!!!
true…very true
shut up! you sterile little person
Although I do agree that the timing of the act was not well placed. A bit more respect for the ongoing Military appreciation ceremony was certainly due! However, I urge those not tp carry this too far…one act of self expression certainly does not tarnish the Pirate name. Let’s not forget that a recent ECU student was just arrested on murder charges…try to keep some perspective!
We weren’t playing SMU, TEC…it was the University of Southern Mississippi, aka USM. SMU is Southern Methodist University.
Um…I’m pretty sure there was an attendance of over 50,000..not 40,000. That is 10,000 more people who saw dat wiener. Get a new editor or proofreader over there.
In no way was there 50,000 people there for that; a good 10,000 or more had already left because the Pirates were down 24 points at the half.
I think the bigger problem is when we think it’s OK to publish a full frontal nudity picture and write about “nut sacks” like it’s just another day in November. Self expression is a right, but it does carry consequences.
Shut the hell up. If you want to condemn anyone, condemn the streaker, but don’t criticize TEC. It was a difficult decision, but they did what they felt was necessary for their students. I applaud TEC.
This article is HILARIOUS!!!! With all the truly bad things going on in this world, it’s good to read something funny!
Then you must just be in stitches over the Penn State stories.
Mr. Sieglander would be a great guest at your childrens show and tell day at school.
This article is a classless piece of work. Learn to edit and be a little more professional.
so true
Do not hide indecency behind freedom of the press or the publics right to know. My teenage children had used this paper for references in their school work in the past but no more. You have taken a so called freedom to a new low. Just because you can does not mean you should. My husband fought for your freedom but it doesn’t mean he wants our children subjected to trashy articles. ~no longer a reader
and i highly doubt your husband found this humorous. my dad is also a vet and he would be outraged (he hasn’t heard about this yet).
I’m sorry, but the article wasn’t indecent. It was written to be accurate and effective. The news today is FULL of inaccurate garbage due to heavy censorship instigated by supposed conservative watchdog groups, and we are often left with a false impression of what ACTUALLY HAPPENED prior to the news story.
Again, I applaud The East Carolinian for breaking out of that damaging mould by publishing an unedited picture from the football game of the streaker. As citizens, we have a right and a duty to receive the truth and to convey the truth at all times.
If you no longer wish to read TEC, that’s your business, but do not call that article indecent.
Oh I hope all the children enjoyed the festivities.
Just think, a Penn Stater should do the same thing this weekend.
Think how much joy it would bring to all!
And as far as it taking “balls” to do something like that?
It is more like the individual is missing a few ball-bearings where they ought to be.
Now he is a level one sex offender too. Yippee for him.
It will look great on the resume too Mr. Sieglander.
The streaking in itself is not that big of a deal, but the fact that it was during the military appreciation ceremony is outrageously disrespectful. These people have made enormous sacrifices for our country, and they can’t even be honored without being interrupted by some selfish idiot? What is the world coming to? And he’s obviously making excuses to try to take the blame off himself. He figured everyone would be like “oh ha ha, a naked guy, how cool.” but now that everyone’s pissed he’s trying to dig himself out of it. He’s obviously one of those people who thinks (for some unknown reason) they wake up in the morning and piss gold. And so he thinks that he has the right to divert attention from a service honoring our military personnel. Some people have no couth whatsoever.
Go, John!! While others glorify war and acts of murder (Thou shall not kill…sometimes?), you get arrested for being just as you came into this world.
people like you are embarassing.
Shut the hell up Megan.
Grow up Megan. You obviously haven’t seen a grown man naked. Get over it.
What is the big deal? Let the poor guy streak. Lighten up. Y’all don’t know how to enjoy life.
This reminds me of the time I ran through Carter-Finley with my ballzac flappin’ back in the 50s. The ladies were swoonin’ and the children were blushin’ as my hairy doonbag banged against my sprinting thighs. My sister got the biggest kick out of, too. I was a wild man!
-Bob Kennel
Ok so the article was not indecent but the uncensored PICS were…….gezzz what a shame now u have another non reader of your paper,,,u rank right up there with the daily Rejecter……
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this article or what he did. I plan on taking a page from John’s book and living the life I was given a little more. This is a fantastic, well written article and I would be proud to have my name on it. Anyone who thinks this incedent was a disgrace to ECU obviously doesn’t have too much pride in ECU to begin with.
What’s the big deal? Either you have a penis or you’ve seen one. It’s reality, get over it.
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