AJ Dillon, Green Bay Packers running back, catches a pass in practice. | AJ Dillon/Twitter
AJ Dillon, Green Bay Packers running back, catches a pass in practice. | AJ Dillon/Twitter
Green Bay Packers fan Brendan Hall beams at the mention of star running back AJ Dillon’s takedown of Kenosha Kingfishers’ mascot King Elvis.
“This might be the best hit @ajdillon7 has laid on a defender since I watched him in an ISL game literally carry a dude on his back the last 10 yards into the end zone on a long touchdown run,” Hall tweeted July 16.
Hall was one of the fans looking on as the Packers’ star took down the mascot at a celebrity softball game, CBS News reported. As part of the game’s festivities King Elvis took on Dillon in an Oklahoma tackling drill.
The drill starts with two players laying down and then they quickly try to get to their feet so they can tackle the other once they hear the whistle, according to CBS News. A video of the incident has gone viral. Dillon hit King Elvis down so hard that the mascot’s head flew off as he fell to the ground.
Inside the mascot costume was 150-pound, 5-foot-9, Trey Meier, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee junior men’s cross-country team member, according to the Athletic.
Even after having the wind knocked out of him, the student mascot’s immediate concern was getting his head back on, so none of the kids in the audience saw King Elvis without his head, he told the Athletic.
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