Serial streaker Mark Roberts said today that Janet Jacksons controversial moment of right breast nudity stole my thunder at the Super Bowl.
Roberts, 39, from Liverpool, streaked on to the pitch just before the second half of play on Sunday night.
He managed to do an Irish jig and the Moonwalk before being clobbered by a player and carried off the field by police.
Roberts said he ran on the pitch in Houston, Texas, dressed as an American Football referee, moments before the second-half kick off.
He tugged away his uniform, which was held together with velcro, leaving just a strategically-placed plastic American football and a baseball cap.
The guy was lining up to take the kick. He just looked totally confused, Roberts said from his hotel room in Houston.
I was there, naked, apart from a plastic American football over my nether regions held on with Sellotape, doing a Riverdance in the middle of the Super Bowl, and nobody was coming after me.
The two teams were looking at each other, trying to work out what was going on, so I started to Moonwalk.
Then I started doing crazy body poses and thats when the whole of the Houston police department came chasing on the field.
I took off on the chase. One player tried to tackle me and I dodged him and a second ran into me and gave me a shoulder charge. He was huge. I spun like a top.
Roberts was carried off the field by several police officers and later charged with trespassing. He will have to appear in court in Houston on Monday.
He said police officers were more amused than angry at his stunt during the game in which the New England Patriots narrowly beat the Carolina Panthers.
Officers even asked him to sign copies of his rap sheet, which showed his mugshot and fingerprints.
It was the first time Roberts has streaked in the United States.
So far, he has worn his birthday suit at the Wimbledon Mens tennis final in 2002, the Grand National in 1996 and on ITVs This Morning in 1995, when he ran on to the giant weather map on the Thames.
The former church handyman, from the Kensington area of Liverpool, has had other conquests in Hong Kong and Thailand. In all he has streaked 300 times.
He calls himself a professional streaker and says he has advertising deals in Europe.
But his exploit at the Super Bowl was the highlight of 11 years of going naked.
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He had received scores of interview requests and Playboy magazine has asked him for an interview. His moment of glory was also shown on late night US talk shows.
Robertss only regret about the Super Bowl streak was that it was overshadowed by Janet Jacksons own moment of exposure.
Her half-time performance, which ended with Justin Timberlake tearing her top to reveal her right breast, has caused uproar in America.
She took my thunder. If she hadnt done that I would have been front page material, Roberts said.