Chicago's Hey You Millionaires and Steve Gadlin Play Whirlyball with Kids in the Hall
The headline pretty much says it all. From Steve Gadlin's blog (photoset here):
"Well, my week is off to an incredibly surreal and unexpected start. I got to be the 5th Beatle for the sketch group Hey You Millionaires last night as they faced off against the Canadian sketch kings Kids in the Hall in a couple matches of Whirlyball.
I’m still not entirely clear on the context of the match, but it’s part of an article for Time Out Chicago. The group Hey You Millionaires (at right) took their name from the first line uttered in the first episode of Kids in the Hall’s HBO series, so Time Out thought it’d be nice for them to square off.
I arrived at Whirlyball very early, and sat around watching a baseball game waiting for everyone else to show up. I was still a little suspicious that this entire thing was a big prank, so when about fifteen 9-year olds ran in through the entrance screaming, I thought, “oh, nice guys. Kids. In a hall. Har har.” But soon after the little kids, Hey You Millionaires walked in… and the four of us nervously split a pitcher waiting for the super mega famous people to arrive.
They arrived, and we played two rounds of Whirlyball. I scored two of our three total goals. We lost the first match, we won the second match. This epic battle between the US and Canada ended in a tie. I was defended by Kevin McDonald. I scored on him twice. How cool is that? I was doing pretty well at keeping my cool until I scored my first goal. But that had nothing to do with Kids in the Hall. I’ve just never scored at Whirlyball before."
