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YouTube Gold: Mike Curtis Takes Out A Fan

Mike Curtis is one of the finest football players Duke ever produced. A 1965 graduate, he went on to play for the Baltimore Colts, the Seattle Seahawks and, as they were then known, the Washington Redskins.

He was really good, making four pro bowls, first team All-Pro twice, the AFC Defensive Player of the Year in 1970 and also got a Super Bowl ring in 1968.

But despite that sterling resume, he was perhaps most famous for an unusual play, if we can call it that.

In 1971, a drunken fan rushed the field and tried to take the ball.