Want to own your own piece of Mark Roberts' Super Bowl streak? He was even asked to speak during the Rock the Vote Awards in Hollywood. And there are rumblings about a motion picture. He's been a guest on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show" and "The Best Damn Sports Show." He's been profiled on "SportsCenter" and "Real Sports." He's signed a book deal. Since the game last February, the goofy-looking 40-year-old from Liverpool, the guy who takes his clothes off and runs around naked for a living, has partied with P. "Some of the events I did in the past put me on the map, but the Super Bowl - that put me on the moon. "I'm worldwide now," says Roberts, who has streaked everything from Wimbledon and the British Open to the Commonwealth Games and the UEFA Cup Final.
Looking back, Roberts says it was worth it. He performed an Irish jig in front of Carolina kicker John Kasay, and was dodging security officials when New England Patriots linebacker Matt Chatham flattened him with an elbow. He used a Velcro officiating outfit to sneak onto the field, and ripped off the uniform just before kickoff to start the third quarter. An online casino paid for his game ticket, airfare and hotel in exchange for a slab of advertising space on his front and backside. Last year, he says, everything came together. He planned to attempt a streak at Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego, but his tickets fell through. Roberts was already known throughout Europe and the UK for his streaks, which now number more than 380. So we took photographs outside the courthouse. "The judge had to excuse herself, and she took me in there and everyone was just laughing. Roberts said that after the verdict was read, the jurors returned to a side room where they broke out in laughter. Even the judge told them they made the right decision - jail wasn't the right thing." Lucky enough, they saw the funny side of this. "My fate was in the hands of all these women," Roberts says. While the league pushed for jail time, Roberts said, the jury fined him $1,000. The charge carried a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $2,000 fine. In June, an all-female Houston jury found Roberts guilty of misdemeanor trespassing for his Super Bowl antics.
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Just before he went incommunicado, we reached Roberts with a phone call to his home in Liverpool, and asked for an update on his last 12 months. "Everybody loved it - except for the NFL." The great people of America took it as they should - with laughter. Everyone I met - in L.A., Houston, New York - I never got any negative vibes from anybody. "I was just overwhelmed by the way the American people took to me. "It was one of the most fantastic experiences of me whole life," Roberts says. And he'd be lying if he told you he didn't crave more. Sure, Janet Jackson's Nipple-gate stole some of his thunder, but Roberts parlayed his Super Bowl streak into his own 15 minutes of American fame. After all, he formally introduced himself to American pop culture at last year's Super Bowl, dropping his drawers before the second-half kickoff and parading around midfield in nothing but a G-String. But that's where the smart man puts his money. We've been following his antics for a couple years now: "Somewhere where people can't get in touch," he says. But Mark Roberts won't say where he's going.
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