Superbowl streaker faces US court

Streaker Mark Roberts appeared in court in the United States today after baring all at the Super Bowl.

Roberts, 39, from Kensington, Liverpool, streaked on to the pitch as the second half of the massive sporting spectacle was about to begin.

He managed to do an Irish jig and the Moonwalk before being clobbered by a player and carried off the field by police.

Roberts was appearing at Harris County courthouse, in Houston, Texas, charged with trespassing.

Roberts told last week how he ran on the pitch in Houston dressed as an American Football referee, moments before the second-half kick-off on February 1.

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.

“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 that’s 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.

In the past Roberts has worn his birthday suit at the Wimbledon Men’s tennis final in 2002, the Grand National in 1996 and on ITV’s This Morning in 1995, when he ran on to the giant weather map on the Thames.

The former church handyman 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.

“It’s huge. I don’t think I’ll ever do anything else like this. What can you do to better the Super Bowl?” he said.