Watch moment helicopter drops football onto the field at state championship game in Utah

A authorities title shot crippled successful Utah got disconnected to a precise absorbing commencement arsenic a chopper replaced the accepted coin flip earlier the crippled got underway.

The crippled itself was betwixt Monticello and Rich High Schools taking spot connected the field of Southern Utah University.

But alternatively of starting the eight-man shot crippled with the tossing of a coin, the teams got originative and utilized a chopper to get proceedings underway.

The chopper flew implicit fractional the tract earlier coming to a hover close implicit the midfield logo - wherever 2 captains for some teams were awaiting underneath.

It was past that idiosyncratic connected the chopper dropped a shot from aggregate feet up - sending the 2 players scrambling aft the bouncing object.

It appears, according to Sports Illustrated, that Rich recovered the shot to commencement the game.

According to SI, they ran distant with the crippled from determination - pulling distant with a 50-14 triumph implicit their rivals.

SI says that this was the 5th clip successful Utah's Division 1A past that the 2 schools met successful the rubric crippled - with Monticello inactive starring the wide series.

Social media universally loved the move, with immoderate likening it to the aged XFL. 

Some called for the NFL to follow this attack to opening games - but it's unclear if the league would beryllium funny successful specified a caller approach.