just glorious
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008http://improveverywhere.com/2008/04/07/best-game-ever/
these guys may have jumped the shark with the amount of corporate involvement on this project, but hey, it was for the kids.
reading through the description of this stunt reads exactly like the kind of projects I want to be involved with (and ultimately fail in.) clearly, there were no limits in the setup here. started with a simple, yet great idea (turn a little league game into a major event), and then with each layer of the illusion, then turned it up to 11.
getting the fans was the easy part actually - my friends and I have stopped to watch littel kids play sports and just started cheering them on. the vendors and programs were a nice touch, but within reach of any ordinary stunt. the superfans were a nice touch, but if that was the extent of it, may have come off a little creepy.
jumbotron is where the real spectacle began - where the real rick-diculous thinking started to turn this into 16 ounces of pure awesome. I wish I was at that planning meeting - I can see it now - yellow post-it’s arranged on the whiteboard, MS Project Plan projected on the front screen, and jimmy drifts into that stage of semi-lucidness from his lunchtime dimebag.
Sally - “we should find some way of getting one of those light board things that have at real games to hold the numbers and stuff”
Jon - “it’s called a SCOREBOARD Sally, for fucks sake, have you ever BEEN to a baseball game”
JIMMY - “fucking A - scoreboard. no FUCK THAT - JUMBOTRON”
Sally - “how are we supposed to pay for a jumbotron? that sounds expensive. is that the thing throws the balls at the bat guy”
Jon - “PITCHES at the BATTER! why the fuck are you even here?”
JIMMY - “we’ll just call the TV dudes - like Jim Gray or some shit - what the fuck does he have going on now anyway? just tell him to bring his”
Sally - “who’s Jim Gray? does he talk about baseball games? why would he want to do this”
Jon - “he CALLS every significant sport on NBC! do you even know what we are trying to do here?!?”
Jimmy - “what the fuck Sally - why you gotta be a debbie downer. my
supplierfriend knows a guy that works a dude whos cousin like, sweeps up and shit in the office he walks through to get his mail or some shit. let me hit that bitch up”…
Jim Gray - “Hells Yes - I’m fucking in. Let me call my boy with the blimp.”
the fucking GOODYEAR BLIMP! can’t you just sense the avalanche of delicious passion this was turning into? granted, not much at stake again really, but if you are putting together an ambitious plan you want to be a potential glorious failure and it includes a mother fucking DIRIGIBLE - you are on the right path.
in the end, they pulled it off brilliantly, kids and parents had a blast, and improveverywhere took another step towards annoying. if only they dared to test waters of failure… like roiding up a kid or something…. glorious….