Come on. We’ve all thought about this, and we may even go so far as to call it the greatest nightmare in sport: What happens if a Jumbotron falls down?
But it could never happen, right? They wouldn’t hang something so heavy and potentially dangerous from the ceiling unless they were sure beyond a belief that it wouldn’t fall, right?
Well, your worst fears might be validated now. The Jumbotron at George Washington University in Washington collapsed on to the basketball court, and now we’ll never stop thinking about it.
Fortunately, nobody was hurt as the Jumbotron fell, as the court didn’t appear to be in use at the time. It was reportedly going under maintenance at the time, so it wasn’t complete luck, either — the same sequence of events is unlikely to repeat when athletes are on the court.
Still, though. What if a Jumbotron fell in the middle of one of your favorite team’s games? You can’t stare at that image and not feel the risk becoming just a little more real. (Nobody said feeling the risk is ever rational.)
In this year’s playoff series between the Winnipeg Jets and Nashville Predators, we did in fact see pieces of the Jumbotron fall to the ice after Viktor Arvidsson’s clearing attempt sailed high, but of course, the structure held safe in place, because Jumbotrons don’t actually fall... mostly.
h/t Twitter/GWTV
