Before getting to our top 6, no list of best football pitch invasions can go by without a mention of the most famous intrusion in American sports. The college football match between Stanford and California in 1982 has an ending so iconic that the event is simply known as The Play. Stanford Cardinal had scored a field goal with 4 seconds left to lead 20-19. The only chance California had of victory against their big rival was to run back the subsequent kickoff for a touchdown. With five laterals of the ball, what happened next as time expired has gone down as one of the craziest endings in the history of tv sports.