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Copa America Fans Climb Through Vents Trying To Get Into Final

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Fans getting into Copa America Final in Miami, Florida. Fans tried to climb through vents to get into the game! (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Watch as Copa America fans climb through vents trying to get into the Final match! This is like their Super Bowl!

Clearly, these fans love them some soccer, er, football. For the sake of avoiding any confusion, I’ll be referring to the sport as “soccer” going forward here. Video from the Copa America Final shows fans attempting to climb through vents to get access to the game. They got creative in their efforts! Check out the viral video below.

Copa America Fans Climb Through Vents Trying To Get Into Final

Fans packed outside of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami before the Copa America Final
Megan Briggs/Getty Images
Fans packed outside of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami before the Copa America Final (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

Here is the USA, we don’t take soccer as seriously as the rest of the world. We prefer to go all out for the NFL or even College Football. It appears that we have some catching up to do and could be missing out on some serious fun. These Copa America fans must love the game!

According to The Mirror, fans were spotted climbing through air vents under the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida where the Copa America final took place between Argentina and Colombia. It was a chaotic scene of people trying to get into the all-important match. People were spotted rushing the turnstiles, overpowering security, and getting unruly.

A video is now going viral online showing a large group of people attempting to enter the stadium through an underground ventilation system. It’s wild to see! CONMEBOL, the governing body of South American football, wrote in an official statement, “We inform that people who do not have tickets will not be able to enter the stadium. Only those who have purchased tickets will be able to enter once access is enabled again,” per The Mirror.

It appears that many of the fans trying to gain access were sporting Colombia jerseys. Part of me feels like the United States wasn’t prepared to host an international game of this size–even in Miami. South Americans take their soccer very seriously. We now know that. Hopefully, we can get a bit of that passion here and start making Copa America finals of our own! Argentina would go on to win the match 1-0.

Check out the viral video of Copa America fans trying to get into the game shared by @ManagerTactical on X (formerly Twitter) below.

Cort Freeman was born and raised in Metro Detroit. He was named Clarkston High School 2009 Class Clown 13 years after graduating. Totally normal thing to happen. That’s thanks to his time spent as an Intern at Comedy Central and Social Media Correspondent for The Colbert Report. Cort has done comedy across the country, both standing up and sitting down. When he’s not trying to make you laugh on-air and online, he’s probably at home enjoying his favorite shows like Seinfeld, South Park, and The Office. He’s also totally uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person. Cort enjoys writing about comedy, food, sports, and entertainment. So, basically anything and everything.

5 Of The Best Football Movies Of All-Time

What are the best football movies of all-time? We came up with a list of 5 of our favorites, did yours make the list?

There are no shortage of excellent movies that are about football. There are classics, new movies, comedies, and dramas all about football. However, what are the best football movies of all-time?

What Are The Best Football Movies Of All-Time?

Football season is quickly coming up! I’m already picturing Sundays in front of the TV with my gameday snacks and no plans for the entire day but watching some games and placing some bets. We’re only a few months away from the start of the 2024-2025 NFL season!

To celebrate, we came up with a list of 5 of the best football movies of all-time. Of course, only picking 5 meant that some great football movies were being left on the cutting room floor. They couldn’t all end up making the list. Recently, we also made lists of the Best Baseball Movies for the MLB season and the Best Basketball Movies during the NBA season. Make sure to come back to check out these lists after you see the list of the best football movies of all-time.

Do you have a football movie in mind? Hopefully it ended up making the list! For this list, I decided to try to make it the best of the best when it comes to football movies. I didn’t want this to be my personal list of favorite football movies, so I tried to think of what most people would consider to be the best. Did some of my personal favorites slip through the cracks? Probably. However, I did my best to remain totally unbiased.

Unfortunately, some great movies didn’t make the cut. I didn’t include Friday Night Lights because I thought the show was better than the movie. Little Giants is one of my personal favorites but I didn’t think it was good enough to earn a spot on the list. Radio is another great movie that you won’t find on the list. Jerry Maguire is a great movie but football wasn’t a big enough part of the movie for it to be considered a “football movie,” in my opinion. Are they great movies! Absolutely! They just didn’t make this list.

Ready to check out the list? Let us know if we missed your favorite football movie if it didn’t end up on the list! See our list of 5 of the best football movies of all-time below!

5 Of The Best Football Movies Of All-Time

  • Remember The Titans

    Remember The Titans is my favorite football movie and I think it’s arguably the best of all-time. It has everything you’d want in a football game! There’s leadership, quality football, there’s comedy, the story is great, you care about the characters–it’s excellent from start to finish. There are so many great quotes in the movie. It’s also very relatable to anyone who played football and grew up playing the game while addressing racial issues at the time.

  • Any Given Sunday

    Is Any Given Sunday my favorite football movie? No, it definitely is not. Is it in my personal Top 10? Honestly, I doubt it. However, you can’t argue it’s one of the best football movies of all-time. You got great performances from Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, and Cameron Diaz. They were all perfect in their roles and the movie was well cast. You simply can’t discuss football movies without bringing up Any Given Sunday. It deserves a spot on the list.

  • The Waterboy

    I know I said I wasn’t going to let any personal biases affect the list, but this might be the one exception. We had to have The Waterboy on the list! It’s probably the football movie I’ve seen the most times. It has to be the funniest movie about football, right? Sure, The Longest Yard is good, but it doesn’t hold a candle to The Waterboy. Do you agree?

  • The Replacements

    The Replacements had a great cast with Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton, and Jon Favreau. The movie came out in 2000 and has been considered one of the best football movies ever sense. Again, it’s not my personal favorite but I can’t deny it a spot on the list because I don’t like it. However, if another movie were to be added I will admit it would probably take The Replacements place. It would be the replacement…pun not intended but pretty cool how that worked out!

  • Rudy

    You were waiting for this one weren’t you? Thinking it might not make the list? Of course Rudy is going to make the list of the best football movies of all-time. I’d bet most would consider it to be the greatest football movie of all-time. It’s often synonymous with football movies. It’s a timeless classic that will live on for many more generations.

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