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The 4-by-6 inch black, handheld mirror fell out of the sky, tumbling toward the head of a 70-year-old retired Nebraska judge during halftime, just as he was turning around to talk to a friend a few rows back.

At first he thought it was a bottle, until he saw the glass shards scattered at the feet of those around him.

A season-ticket holder since the 1970s, Carlton Clark has come to consider those sitting around him family.

“They care about you,” Clark said.

So when the mirror hit Clark's head and sent him falling onto the seats and down to the concrete, his Husker family leaned over him and began to help. They yelled for medics and started tending to the bloodied 1½-inch gash.

“It sounded like a gunshot when it hit,” Clark said. The mirror shattered, sending pieces flying, one of which cut a woman sitting nearby.

Though Clark doesn’t know how far the mirror fell, the best guess is that it came over the edge of an ESPN broadcast booth above. But even that seems a little unlikely, as Clark’s seats aren’t directly below the booth.

“I have no idea how it could have happened,” he said. “But the odds were 1 in 92,000, and I was the one.”