Make That a Bucket of Chicken and a Couple Touchdowns to Go
SEATTLE — It’s fourth down and a bucket of chicken to go, please .
Sometimes a little technology can backfire. Take the strange case of the football team at Seattle’s Cleveland High where the school plays its games across the street from a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise.
Often, the chatter on Cleveland Coach Hoover Hopkins’ headset isn’t advice from assistant coaches in the press box but orders for chicken beamed in from the drive-through window. Talk about crossed signals.
Restaurant assistant manager Ken Eng was surprised when the transmission started going the other way and the coaches’ crusty language suddenly appeared on the drive-through headset last week.
“From about 7 to 9 p.m., we had to take orders at the window because the coaches were broadcasting live on our system,” he said.
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