Well that's exactly how Nik Wallenda successfully did a nerve-wracking, daredevil high-wire challenge airing at the same time as the Steelers-Ravens game last night. Wearing a blindfold!
Wallenda (of the famed family of highwire performers) crossed the Chicago River on a tightrope at a height of more than 50 stories — walking at a 19-degree incline for the Discovery Channel. He made it more difficult by doing it blindfolded and without a safety harness or net between the west and east Marina City towers.
The man with real nerves of steel slid his feet along the wire and followed a pinging sound as his father guided him. Footage, airing on the Discovery Channel, ran on a 10-second delay so producers could cut away if he fell to his death. He said his only back-up plan if things went wrong would be to attempt to kneel and cling to the wire with his feet.
Even while Wallenda was still carefully shuffling his way across the Chicago River, that bastion of information, Wikipedia, already declared him dead.
And other social media commentators quipped about Chicago's reputation for gun violence — saying Wallenda was safer 50 flights above the street than trying to walk across it.
Here's the view Wallenda missed seeing:
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