Luke Bryan and the Ice Bucket Challenge

Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, Massachusetts, near Boston, is a big place. No - scratch that. Gillette Stadium is a huge place! The home field of the New England Patriots, New England Revolution and University of Massachusetts Amherst Football teams has a full seating capacity of 68,756 and on August 10, 2014, Luke Bryan fans nearly filled it to capacity.

Over 60,000 fans turned out for his That's My Kind of Night tour and that number broke the stadium's attendance record for a single-day country music concert.

This isn't the first time in recent history that Luke has broken an attendance record at a huge venue. Back in June, over 50,000 fans showed up to hear him sing when he played at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field.

Luke celebrated the record-breaker in an atypical way. No - no fancy new dance moves made the spotlight. Instead, he took the ice bucket challenge instead and froze his behind off for ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Before the show, during load-in, he went up on stage and said, "So I’m on the field here at Gillette and Cole Swindell has challenged me to strike out ALS. “He’s challenged me. I’m gonna do it and I challenge Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum. Love you Charles."
Then he dunked a big bucket of ice cold water on his own head!

Lee Brice and Dierks Bentley were watching and after Luke walked off, Lee worried, "I think my time might be coming." Dierks was too busy laughing, saying, "Damn, those jeans just got tighter," to be too worried about himself.

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