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"My grandparents were proud" - Infamous Bledisloe Cup streaker remembers 2002 incident

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 17 Feb 2025, 4:00pm
Streaker Aaron Bain disrupts the Bledisloe Cup test match at Telstra Stadium in Sydney, 3 August 2002 / Getty Images
Streaker Aaron Bain disrupts the Bledisloe Cup test match at Telstra Stadium in Sydney, 3 August 2002 / Getty Images

"My grandparents were proud" - Infamous Bledisloe Cup streaker remembers 2002 incident

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 17 Feb 2025, 4:00pm

After a series of streakers interrupted the opening round of Super Rugby Pacific over the weekend, Matt Heath and Tyler Adams asked what the motivation is and whether there's a solution to it.

That prompted Aaron Bain to call, one of the infamous streakers who interrupted a Bledisloe Cup test in 2002 covered in Vodafone branding.

While he says he wasn't paid by the Australian telco for the stunt, he revealed there was a deal that if he made it to the field he would get paid $500, and if they got on TV they would get $1000, and all their fines would be paid for.

23 years later, he told Matt and Tyler that he had a a good time.

"I'll tell you that it was funny, everybody knew me, my grandparents were proud."

And his only regret?

"I regret that we lost the game."

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