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I'M LOVIN' IT — Someone at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh had a hankering for two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
Or so it seemed.
During the second half of the Duquesne's men's basketball game against Loyola Chicago on Wednesday night, apparently a food delivery person wandered onto the court with a bag of McDonalds and a coke, seemingly looking for whoever ordered the food.
Stoppage in Play. Uber Eats delivery guy goes on court with food delivery in the middle of the Duquesne game. pic.twitter.com/rY4VFIsJnR
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) January 26, 2023
The game was halted and we got some great commentating over the bizarre incident. "The ref said, 'Later! Give it to me later! Not now!" was one of the many great lines.
It left the teams chuckling, along with everyone else that saw the clip.
"Only at Duquesne can a guy deliver food on the court during the game," Duquesne coach Keith Dambrot told reporters after the game. "Craziest thing I've ever seen in my life, other than when I was an assistant at Eastern Michigan. We had these friends of ours that were good fans and they got the ice cream guy to deliver the ice cream to the coaches during the game. The closest thing I've seen to that."
The ice cream incident was real. The one on Thursday, though, appears to have been a stunt.
Loyola assistant athletic director Austin Hansen was right by the incident and pointed out that the delivery worker was wearing a mic.
Everyone keeps asking me what happened with the door dash guy on the court at tonights game. Here was my angle.
— Austin Hansen (@AustinHansenTV) January 26, 2023
A thread... pic.twitter.com/QMY3nmw2tq
"This kid was clearly doing a prank for Youtube/TikTok," Hansen tweeted. " You can see that he is wearing a microphone, and tons of students were filming him with their phones."
A statement from Duquesne also pointed to it being a prank.
"This was a prank, planned in advance, done for internet exposure. We determined that the individual was wearing a mic while someone filmed him as he walked onto the court during active play. While the incident may have seemed funny at the time, and no harm was done, we are mindful that incidents like this can put players and officials at risk."
Points for creativity, I guess, but a big sigh about it not being real.
Oh well, it was still pretty funny.
