It was back when St John’s was the Redmen, the students sat in the Blue curtain stands and the team benches at the dome were on the blue court side. I was sitting in my season ticket 312 nose bleed seats and something caught my eye across the court. It was an SU student running down a blue curtain aisle as fast as he could then turned running down the walkway in front of the Blue Curtain section. He then grabbed the Indian headdress of the St John’s mascot right off his head. He did it in one quick swoop, turned towards the backcourt running as fast he could holding the headdress in his hand above his head. By then about 5 security guys noticed and started running after him but by then he had reached the stands in the backcourt running straight up them disappearing totally from view up into the back court concourse and probably out an exit. By then the dome was roaring finally noticing the fiasco.
Everyone was yelling, laughing and wondering what the heck was going on. I ended up telling the people around me what had happened, most had missed everything but the very end seeing the security etc running after the guy who was running up the stairs. An usher came up to me asking what I saw from my 312 row M seats. I told him and he told me to wait, that he was going to tell someone. I continued to watch the game and the usher never returned- not that I could tell him much other than the color of his coat and what aisle he had come from (no way I knew what row). It became a big thing with St. John’s demanding its’ return, reward offers, police involvement and a number of articles asking for its‘ return and pleading for information. Last I heard it had never been found, I guess it was valuable. It was pretty funny though - ok, any of you finally going to fess up?
