Iowa State football: Kelm Brueschke, family in charge of football game fireworks [Video]

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — When the Iowa State football team runs out onto the field at Jack Trice Stadium, their path is lined by towers shooting flames into the sky and giant black boxes spewing fountains.

It makes for a pretty cool entrance.

“That moment when Coach Campbell leads his team down the tunnel and through the cryo jet fog and out into our flame tower, and then we start the whole thing. It’s just a 45 second show but it’s very intense,” said pyrotechnician Kelm Brueschke. “It’s lot of work to do to pull it off and make it happen.”

Brueschke is the man behind the fireworks at Iowa State’s home football games. He’s been in the pyro business since 1991, doing everything from sporting events to big-name concerts all over the Midwest.

“Now that I’ve been doing it for 34 years, to me, …