Fan Falls From Stands Through Awning at NFL Game

A football fan was hospitalized Sunday after falling from the stands at Tennessee's Nissan Stadium during the NFL game between the Tennessee Titans and the New England Patriots. An NFL employee who witnessed the fall tells USA Today that as cheerleaders threw T-shirts into the crowd during the third quarter, one landed on the awning above the tunnel leading to the Titans locker room. "Next thing I saw was a guy falling through" the top of that awning, he says. Police say Thomas Carrico Jr., 37, lost his balance reaching for the T-shirt and fell over a lower-level railing onto the concrete below, WTVF reports. He was in critical but stable condition as of Sunday night. (There have been multiple fatal falls at this baseball field.)