Once my mom and I went to see a Harlem Crowns game at Mt.
Elizabeth Secondary School in Kitimat.
The Harlem Crowns, like the similarly named Harlem Clowns, were a Harlem
Globetrotters style team. That is, they
were a mix of basketball and comedy; there was never any doubt that they would
win against a standard basketball team.
I can’t recall who their opponents were. Likely they were senior
students or something like that. The
acts were the same as any you saw televised with the Globetrotters et al but it
was fun seeing it live.
Well, not fun for everybody.
A father and son apparently had bought tickets to see an actual
basketball game, apparently not considering why a team would come all the way
from Harlem to play in Kitimat and didn’t realize they were actually watching a
comedy show. So as the evening went on
they got more and more upset at the Crowns for interrupting the game with their
antics, especially during one particularly long interval of straight basketball
comedy. I don’t think they ever did
figure out that they were watching a deliberate comedy show and not a straight
basketball game that those rude Harlem Crowns kept interrupting without serious
consequence. I’m sure they ranted about
this to their friends and family afterward; I wonder if anyone ever had the
heart to explain it to them.
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