Michelle Pritchett was watching the Sugar Bowl from the Oklahoma fan side of the field Thursday night, and spent much of the game engaged in a fairly friendly back-and-forth with some Sooner fans nearby.

But then, she said, one of the Oklahoma fans taunted her son and she walked over and told them to stop. As she was heading back to her seat, she said heard someone call her a name.

What happened next took the Internet by storm Friday. Videos -- many set to music -- of the mother of three from Sweet Water, Ala., diving into a crowd of Sooner fans and kicking one went viral over social media. One already had more than a million views on Youtube by 8 p.m. Friday.

"It had nothing to do about the ball game," she told AL.com in an interview Friday. "It had nothing to do with us losing. It started when he started taunting my son."

Pritchett said she was at the game with her husband, her 16-year-old son, her son's girlfriend and son's girlfriend's sister, and some other friends. She said she's a big Alabama fan and she's bantered with opposing fans, but this time, it got to be a little too much.

Pritchett said she had had a couple of drinks but wasn't intoxicated, and she said the Sooner fans had gotten out of control.

"Even some of the people with them said 'y'all are getting too rowdy, this is getting out of control,'" she said.

Pritchett said she's sorry for her actions, that she wouldn't normally respond that way. She said she wants to apologize to both Oklahoma fans and Alabama fans.

"I apologize to the whole Alabama team, to Nick Saban," she said. "I apologize to the whole Alabama base. That's not the way I would normally handle things. But when he told my son to come down there, that wasn't going to happen."

Late Friday night, Pritchett also apologized to Michael Connolly, the Oklahoma University junior who she jumped on. In a tweet posted after midnight Friday, Connolly said that he "just got a phone call and a very sincere apology from Michelle."

Connolly

his side of the story Friday. Connolly said the two groups of fans had been taunting each other all game and Pritchett came after them after Pritchett's son told them to come up and fight him. They told him to come down to them, Connolly said.

Pritchett said the Oklahoma fans had been rowdy all game, and that security had been called up to the area twice to see if someone in the section had been tossing things down into the lower level.

"From what the security person told me, they walked up there a couple times because the lower deck people were complaining that someone was throwing bottles," said Pritchett, who said she didn't personally see them throw any bottles. "I didn't tell them to come up there but they talked to these guys a few times."

While she is sorry it happened, she said she only did it because her son was brought into it.

"Would I take that back? No," she said. "He was out of control."

Updated at 11:28 p.m. to clarify that Pritchett's comments come from an interview with AL.com.

Updated at 10:45 a.m. Saturday to include information about Pritchett's apology to Connolly