{"id":91103,"date":"2018-10-05T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103//?p=91103"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:17:35","slug":"stare-kid-ucfs-football-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103//stare-kid-ucfs-football-games/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103//","title":{"rendered":"Who is /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201cThe Stare-Down Kid/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201d at UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019s Football Games?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In between all the action at UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019s home football games the past two weeks, one Knight stood out /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2014 but he wasn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019t in uniform or even on the field. Instead, he was a face in a crowd of thousands of fans at Spectrum Stadium./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

A face that stood out enough to make it to ESPN and even become the most-liked Instagram posts on the @UCFKnights account, amassing more than 26,000 likes between two separate videos by Oct. 4. His mug earned more likes than the Knights/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019 Peach Bowl win, Knightro/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019s latest dance video and Shaquem Griffin/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019s draft in the NFL./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

By now, if you/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019ve been watching this season/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019s games, you know, or should know, it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019s /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201cThe Stare-Down Kid,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201d a young man who blankly and intensely looked into the video-board camera without blinking or smiling during the Sept. 21 game against Florida Atlantic 海角直播./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

What you probably don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019t know is who he is. Anthony Allan is a first-year civil engineering major who had no idea that by trying to be funny in the moment, he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019d turn into a viral phenomenon./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

During the Sept. 29 game against the 海角直播 of Pittsburgh, Allan solidified his GOAT (greatest of all time) status by repeating his camera stare-down, but this time he took it to the next level by having his friends hold large cut-outs of his emotionless face as they crowded around him./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

When he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019s not watching UCF football games, Allan attends classes, plays soccer on the weekends at the intramural fields /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2014 and in between gets called a /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201clegend/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201d by strangers on campus (which even happened during this interview.)/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

Here, Allan shares more about himself and what it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019s like to be one of the most recognizable faces at UCF./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

Why did you come to UCF?/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

I had lived in Gainesville for 15 years, so I didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019t really feel like going to UF because I had been there for so long. The [UCF] engineering program, the football team, the campus and student life seemed like a great environment and I wanted to be a part of that./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

So how did you become /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201cThe Stare-Down Kid/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201d?/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

I was sitting with my friend [at the game against FAU] and I noticed the person working the /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201cFan of the Game/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u201d camera and just stared at him to see if he would notice me. He basically signaled to me to wait a minute and he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019d put me on. He did and it just happened and he kept cutting back to me./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n

I didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019t know at first I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019d be on there. I was just staring at the camera, and my friend told me I was on the screen and they were all flipping out. But I couldn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/u2019t look away because I was already staring. So I had to keep staring./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/91103/n