The Superbowl Prank? Or Superbowl Crank?

Last night, I think I was hoaxed. The joke’s on me, just like thousands of others, who read the post on Boingboing.net about the World’s Most Daring Prank. Cory wrote hey, it might be worth a click, so I did, and ended up spending 45 minutes reading about John Hargrave’s fantastic prank at this year’s Superbowl in Miami.

In excruciating detail, the author writes about how he smuggled 2300 lights into the stadium, under the ruse of being a lightshow for the halftime festivities with The Artist Now Known as Prince. Including many photos showing how they met with security, wore special golf shirts and pants, pretended to be working for Pepsi, and how they outwitted everyone and got more than 2000 fans to hold up lights at halftime that they unwittingly thought would spell out the word PRINCE.

I read the thing and thought, damn, these guys are so clever, I can’t believe how they got through Level One security to do this prank…and why didn’t I read about it in the papers the next day, or why didn’t I see all of the lights during the halftime show, which I actually watched? The authors kept talking about the message they wanted people to show, not PRINCE, but something else…that tipped me off that something was not right.

Well it takes the comments from readers on Endgadget to decipher the real truth…and the little tag at the very end of the long story that said ‘send this video to a friend and put in your own message.’ Too bad I didn’t get this until I had read the entire five page post!