{"id":1707716,"date":"2022-10-23T09:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T13:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707716"},"modified":"2022-10-23T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T13:48:17","slug":"skydiver-dies-in-stunt-gone-awry-before-high-school-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/skydiver-dies-in-stunt-gone-awry-before-high-school-football-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Skydiver Dies In Stunt Gone Awry Before High School Football Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fskydiver-dies-in-stunt-gone-awry-before-high-school-football-game%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An experienced skydiver died as spectators watched in horror Friday when his stunt before the kickoff of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tennessee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee<\/a> high school football game went tragically awry.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Sheffield, 55, was part of a team of professional skydiving performers who jumped out of a plane before the \u201cMusket Bowl,\u201d an annual rivalry between David Crockett and Daniel Boone high schools in eastern Tennessee. Horrified onlookers witnessed Sheffield plunging to the ground behind the stadium. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deceased was a highly experienced jumper with decades of experience to their credit and a well-respected member of the skydiving community,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/jumptn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jump TN<\/a>, the Greenville-based skydiving team to which Sheffield belonged, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/skydiver-dies-after-hard-landing-amid-high-school-football-game-festivities-in-tennessee\/ar-AA13gzqY\">statement<\/a> to USA Today. \u201cThe entire skydiving community is saddened by the sudden loss of a wonderful member of their community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield had completed more than 1,500 jumps, the group said. His parachute did open but apparently malfunctioned as he attempted a stunt leading. Witnesses said Sheffield hit the ground at an unsafe speed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Horrifying moment skydiver, 55, crashes to earth and dies while attempting stunt during high school football pre-game show in Tennessee<br \/>\ud83d\udc94 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WTTO3x3rBB\">https:\/\/t.co\/WTTO3x3rBB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IntoTheMystic (@Mystic_Sailor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mystic_Sailor\/status\/1584075302078070785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home team Crockett has had the skydiving team perform pre-game shows in the past, and Friday night\u2019s game was both Senior Night and the opening of a new field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince it was David Crockett\u2019s new field, it was their first game, [the] first Musket Bowl on their new field,\u201d Daniel Boone sophomore Tyler Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/news\/local\/everyone-was-shocked-witnesses-recall-tragic-skydiving-accident-at-musket-bowl\/\">told WJHL<\/a>. \u201cSo, I guess they were trying to celebrate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game went on as planned, with Boone winning 35-7 in the 52nd annual clash between the teams. But afterward, the community and Sheffield\u2019s family shared their grief on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday just doesn\u2019t feel real, and the hardest day of my life,\u201d Sheffield\u2019s son Stacey wrote on Facebook.\u00a0\u201cYesterday we lost one of the most important people in our lives, my Dad.\u00a0I\u2019m so thankful for the relationship we had. We talked every single day, multiple times a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stacey, who has a twin brother named Casey, said the boys enjoyed skydiving with their father and began at the tender age of 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to skydive with your Dad is another level of cool,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOne thing Dad loved the most was going fast, and that\u2019s how he went out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil we fly again, Dad. I love you. Blue Skies,\u201d the heartbroken son wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experienced skydiver died as spectators watched in horror Friday when his stunt before the kickoff of a Tennessee high school football game went tragically awry. Richard Sheffield, 55, was part of a team of professional skydiving performers who jumped out of a plane before the \u201cMusket Bowl,\u201d an annual rivalry between David Crockett and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}