It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … hot dog?
An independent league baseball team in Illinois attempted a Guinness world record on Tuesday night when it paused the game to drop 2,600 wrapped hot dogs from a helicopter onto the playing surface of Slammers Stadium in Joliet.
The Joliet Slammers said a sold-out crowd of 6,500 was on hand, including legendary actor and comedian Bill Murray, who is part of the ownership group. As the chopper appeared ahead of the sixth inning, the crowd chanted “We want weiners!” as nearly 500 pounds of hot dogs rained onto the turf field.
Slammers players and team employees then ran out with trays and stacked up hot dogs while some grabbed them with their hands. Players then headed back toward the dugouts and “began to whirl weiners into the stands,” wrote the team.
“I hit a guy up in the suites in the chest,” Slammers pitcher Jordan Powell told jolietslammers.com. “I didn’t know I could throw a hotdog that far.”
The Joliet Slammers are members of the independent professional Frontier League, an MLB Partner League with 16 teams from the midwest to the east coast. Slammers Stadium is also home to the Illinois High School Association’s Class 3A and 4A state finals in June.
This article originally appeared on Journal Star: Helicopter, 2,600 hot dogs and Bill Murray: Illinois baseball team attempts unique world record
Reporting by Wes Huett, Peoria Journal Star / Journal Star
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