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High school football game comes to sudden stop when deer and fawn dash through field

A baby deer and fawn ran through a football game in Colorado.
A baby deer and fawn ran through a football game in Colorado. Screengrab from Twitter

A deer and fawn forced a high school football game to take a pause when they ran onto the field during a Friday night match.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife tweeted a video of the two animals disrupting the Oct. 7 football game as the players waited until they got off the Durango High School field.

“You can see some elite hesitation moves and then a jump cut to the right to fake out the defense and get to the sideline for the score,” the caption of the video reads.

The video shows the baby deer chasing after the mama as they make their way off the field.

Durango is about 350 miles southwest of Denver.

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This story was originally published October 11, 2022 at 5:35 PM with the headline "High school football game comes to sudden stop when deer and fawn dash through field."

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Paloma Chavez
McClatchy DC
Paloma Chavez is a reporter covering real-time news on the West Coast. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.
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