No, you weren't seeing things. Jason Day was on the sideline in Detroit on Thursday night at the Lions took on the Green Bay Packers in an NFC North matchup.
The PGA champion may have looked out of place, however, as Day was wearing a red media vest reserved for camera crew members and photographers with field-level access for the games. We're still not sure if Day was actually doing some media work as part of a bit, but he did get an up-close view of Calvin Johnson's impressive first quarter touchdown grab.
Day, who has a home in Ohio, was supposed to be in the Bahamas for this week's Hero World Challenge. However, he pulled out of the event after his wife Ellie gave birth to the couple's second child, Lucy, in November.
MICHELLE Payne left us with empty wallets and melted hearts. Brother Stephen made us smile.
Through television screens, we wanted to wipe the tears of joy streaming down Jason Day’s cheek, as he sealed his first golfing major, the PGA Championship.
There’s a movie being made, about the boy from western Sydney, who ditched his job as a professional rugby league player to suit up in the opening game of this year’s NFL season, a game Jarryd Hayne had only ever previously tackled on his Playstation.
Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne and her brother Stevie.
Australia’s Diamonds became our golden girls, in front of a world record crowd, to reign supreme against New Zealand in Netball’s World Cup.
Johnathan Thurston’s sideline conversion attempt, after the full-time siren, to seal North Queensland’s first NRL premiership struck the goal post.
Immortals don’t miss twice.
With ice in his veins, Thurston took a deep breath and created history with his golden-point field goal.
Not to be outdone in the AFL, Hawthorn became just the sixth club in AFL history to win three consective premierships.
Sport, for all it’s drama, heroics, headlines and emotion doesn’t get much better than the sporting calendar of 2015.
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Good news sports fans, it’s not over yet.
The siren for the greatest sporting moment of 2015 is set to sound this week.
Mick Fanning will commence one final charge to win a fourth world surfing title, which would equal that of legendary Australian surfer Mark Richards, in Hawaii on Tuesday.
Surfing immortality is within reach, so too sporting immortality.
Fanning shouldn’t be on earth let alone on the North Shore of Oahu, steeling himself to write the final chapter of his life-changing year at Pipeline, surfing’s holy grail.
Five months ago, Fanning stunned the world when during competition at South Africa’s Jeffereys Bay he fought off a deadly shark.
Jarryd Hayne leaves a Cardinals player in his wake.
The harrowing moment, of Fanning whipping hs body into a frenzy as fellow Aussie and rival that day Julian Wilson incredibly paddled towards his mate, was being televised live into loungerooms across the world.
“The craziest moment actually unfolded when I got knocked off my board and disappeared behind the set wave,” Fanning said in one of his many interviews.
“The thing started thrashing around me, you can see the water splashing, and that’s when I was hitting it.”
The incident has reached over 22-million clicks on YouTube.
Captain Mile Jedinak celebrates the Socceroos Asian Cup triumph.
With the resilience of Hayne and the desire of Day, Fanning always said he would get back into the water.
Bravely, just like Payne, and quite incredibly like Thurston, he did that and more.
Fanning is now on the cusp of being crowned the best surfer in the world for a fourth time.
“If he was to win, it wouldn’t just be the surfing population that would be really happy for him,’’ Richards said.
“To have possibly lost his life and then a few months later to be hoisting a world title, a big percentage of the general population would be sitting back thinking ‘wow’, that’s a pretty big thing to have happened.’’
