After watching a female streaker at a rugby match a day earlier, he drunkenly shrugged it off and told his friends that anybody could streak. It started in 1993, thanks to one too many beers and a boastful promise in a Hong Kong bar. "I don't have much going for me down there, so when I run out on the field, people think I'm a woman with small breasts," Roberts said. Three cheers for the dude who covered him up. But that's what makes it so entertaining. With his pedestrian face, chubby gut and lack of any upper body definition, Roberts is about the furthest thing from a Playgirl centerfold. More often than not, the police arresting him ask for an autograph before slapping on the handcuffs. Still, in England, the Liverpool native is a full-blown celebrity, barely able to walk into a pub without being mobbed. Unable to pay a recent backlog of fines, he spent a recent night in jail as a last warning to pay up or pay the price - a lengthy lockup. Roberts is 38, unemployed, has three kids and lists streaking as his full-time unpaid job. For even more on Roberts, you can uncover his website at And little does NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue know that if not for a snag in obtaining game tickets, Roberts was in San Diego with every intention of making Super Bowl XXXVII the U.S. Haven't seen enough? Then check out Mark Roberts' descriptions of his favorite streaks in his own words. However, Roberts is the original Sir Streak. We live in a time when streaking has become mainstream enough that Nike built an advertising campaign around a streaker at a European soccer match, and then rival Reebok created an ad in which office linebacker Terry Tate flattens Nike's hero.
"At first it was a bit embarrassing," Roberts said.
Universe and Miss World pageant aren't immune. Even local weathermen, political figures and the Mr. His antics have brought an instant stop to soccer, tennis and rugby matches, golf tournaments, casinos and television shows. Over the course of the past 10 years, Mark Roberts has dropped his drawers and revealed every inch of his curvaceous, unflattering self 273 times. Someone who has become such a nuisance to the English parliament that these childish groundings are the only way to keep him from taking his clothes off. Someone who poses a serious threat to one of England's most cherished traditions. When the team returns, you may pick up your passport and resume normal life. On game day, sign in at the station as proof that you're in the country and not at the game. Sent by the football banning order authority, its directives are clear: On a designated date, surrender your passport at a local police station. The letter arrives in Mark Roberts' mailbox each time any English soccer club plays abroad. Here's a look at our profile of Roberts from March 2003: Editor's Note: Mark Roberts made headlines again this weekend when he achieved his lifetime goal: He streaked the Super Bowl.īut before the England native stripped down to next-to-nothing at the start of the second half in Houston, had already told his story.
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