True enough, and I like to hope that I would not only avoid a ball in play but also box out other fans. But who knows? That said, his hands were among 6 or 8 others also trying to grab for the ball, he just had the misfortune of being the one who touched it. The man who ended up actually getting the thing eventually sold it for $100,000 and laughed the incident off during the documentary, while Bartman had to be escorted home that night by a security team and have police cars parked outside his house in the weeks following it. I think one of the things that really did Bartman in, aside from the obvious, is that he was wearing those headphones. They made it look like he wasn't really paying attention or invested in the game and now here he was getting in the way of it, though he was supposedly listening to the game's radio broadcast.