MLS Fan In Cow Costume Invades Pitch, Scores Goal At Sporting Kansas City Stadium Debut (VIDEO)

Sporting Kansas City opened its new soccer-only stadium, LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, on Thursday night against the Chicago Fire. The club had played its first 10 games of the season on the road in preparation for the stadium-opening, so the local fans were chomping at the bit to see the home team play.

Or maybe chomping on their cud would be a touch more accurate.

Late in the match, in the 82nd minute, a fan dressed as a cow -- complete with udders and everything -- sprinted onto the pitch, tossed a ball onto the surface and apparently scored a goal; the goal wasn't seen on TV, but ESPN commentator John Harkes confirms that the man-cow found the back of the net.

The kicker is that this was unofficially the first goal scored at the new stadium during a match.

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Comments

[HoyaHoyaSaxa]

10:04 PM on 06/12/2011

Udderly epic.

[George Garros]

10:54 PM on 06/11/2011

[insert generic cow pun here]

[GeneParmesanPI]

06:29 PM on 06/11/2011

why do people try to add to something already hilarious with their horrible puns

[Subjectivity]

11:52 AM on 06/11/2011

You could say that was against the run of play.

[Adrian31]

10:00 AM on 06/11/2011

That is one mad cow!

[DAK4Blizzard]

05:32 AM on 06/11/2011

We can now confirm that the goal is the first to be certified kosher.

[abuja19]

12:25 AM on 06/11/2011

That's pretty cool.

[ItWasntMeReally]

06:10 PM on 06/10/2011

don't have a cow. have a ball.

[Mark Montgomery]

05:30 PM on 06/10/2011

I saw that on the T.V. last night

[Carbon Forteetoo]

04:56 PM on 06/10/2011

A great day for all cow-kind.

[Richard Horvath]

03:40 PM on 06/10/2011

The media will milk this for everything they can.

[chesscub]

02:56 PM on 06/10/2011

Udderly ridiculous

[J0E1]

02:31 PM on 06/10/2011

How did no one notice the cow sooner?  Right from the start of the video you could see the cow in the sweeper position just running along side everyone else like he wasn't there...

[dropthedh]

02:09 PM on 06/10/2011

Needed Harry Carey to make the call... Holy Cow!

[chiodo08]

01:48 PM on 06/10/2011

side note..the MLS is getting much better...now only if we had the scruples to dime out 12 y/o's and shuttle them off to Europe for seasoning until their 20 like Messi...do you think Americans would go for that?....NOT