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Nfl super bowl streaker1/31/2024 It’s not the stuff of sober public affairs journalism. The quick blurt about the streaking event left me amused, wondering Who does that anymore?, before I went back to heating some soup.ĭeGregory followed up on her curiosity - and that of millions of others - and found out. For me, the game had become background noise by then. By the time one of the two buddies took to the field, costumed in a woman’s pink thong onesie (which, he told DeGregory’s in an interview, gave him a wedgie), there was little drama left in a one-sided game between the victorious Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the struggling Kansas City Chiefs. But she didn’t just wonder: She found out.ĭeGregory did that again this week when she hunted down the scamps who plotted a dramatic streak that briefly interrupted the late minutes of Super Bowl LV. “You wonder: Who’s the THE guy?” she wrote. As I remember the story, DeGregory was at a rodeo with her sons, watching the pre-show pageantry, when the banners galloped by. From her 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “The Girl in The Window” to what she calls a “quickie” feature about “Stormy Daniels: The President’s Porn Star,” DeGregory has built a career out of seeing, and then landing, the stories other journalists dream about, or that catch them by surprise: Damn, why didn’t I think of that? One of my all-time favorites was her profile of “the THE guy:” A rodeo cowboy who carried the flag that said “THE” in the lineup that declared GOD. Lane DeGregory finds and follows stories that give nonfiction storytelling loft and range. ![]() ![]() Following up on curiosity - wondering about everything, and then caring to find out - is what makes journalism soar. 7, 2021.ĪP Photo / Steve Luciano Curiosity grounds all good journalism. A streaker runs across the field during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Feb.
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