The eagle landed all right. On a Notre Dame fan. pic.twitter.com/6koNTfitvm— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 29, 2018
After the anthem, the bald eagle 🦅 landed on two different Notre Dame fans in the stands...@TheJRob is hoping that’s a good sign. pic.twitter.com/9ZbdXL9Jp2— Kimberley A. Martin (@ByKimberleyA) December 29, 2018
🦅☘️ pic.twitter.com/5upm9Ym4L4— Kimberley A. Martin (@ByKimberleyA) December 29, 2018
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He flew circles around the stadium during the singing of the anthem and was then supposed to land near his handler at a selected spot in the stadium. Instead, he picked Armas’s shoulder and then, moments later, had a second accidental landing two sections over on the outstretched arm of Tuyen Nguyen, a lifelong Irish fan originally from Vietnam. “I’m a Philadelphia Eagles fan,” Nguyen says. “When I saw the bird land [on Armas], I thought, the bird had to be very tired. So I put my hand out to see what happens. And it landed on me. It was very interesting. I was very excited. It was amazing. I couldn’t even believe it.”