{"id":387882,"date":"2026-01-03T00:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387882\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:14:10","slug":"parachutist-takes-nasty-fall-at-fort-worth-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387882\/","title":{"rendered":"Parachutist takes nasty fall at Fort Worth football game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bsq2y5vw4iv1jzsg.jpg\" alt=\"Parachutist takes a tumble at Armed Forces Bowl\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A paratrooper got tangled in the field goal net at a Fort Worth football bowl game and took an unpleasant fall Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Sources say the parachutist is uninjured, and walked off the field on his own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The video, shared with FOX 4 by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StarsCountdown\/status\/2007148221492277501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@StarsCountdown on X<\/a>, shows the paratrooper dropping onto the field before getting caught on the field goal net.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/screenshot-2026-01-02-153019.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Paratrooper falls at Armed Forces Bowl | Courtesy: @StarsCountdown <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">After getting caught, the man fell from what appeared to have been around 20\u201330 feet down to the turf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He fell among a group of people standing on the turf below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">First Pitch confirmed that the man was unharmed in the fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Rice player injury <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A player for the Rice University Owls, who were competing against the Texas State Bobcats, was injured and taken from the field later in the game as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Fort Worth Fire Department said they took the player, DB Daveon Hook, of Cibolo, to a nearby hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The identity of the paratrooper was not released. No word was given on whether anyone standing nearby when he fell was affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Hook&#8217;s injuries are unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from @starscountdown on X, First Pitch and the Fort Worth Fire Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/ncaa-football\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Football<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A paratrooper got tangled in the field goal net at a Fort Worth football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,37064,702,44,85,163529,29215,2489],"class_list":["post-387882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-fort-worth","tag-ncaa-football","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}