Incredibly, that’s precisely what they got after the famous actor bumped into the team at a local Burger King and hopped on board the team bus to take a candid photo and help cheer up Pella players following a dispiriting loss.
It’s uncertain precisely what Carrey was doing in rural Iowa,
though the Des Moines Register surmised that he was probably there to
study transcendental meditation at the Maharishi University of
Management. The program has previously been attended by the likes of
Oprah and Moby, so there’s every reason to believe that might have been
Carrey’s motivation.
No matter what the actor learned about remaining centered at
Mahirishi, that went out the window when he got a chance to clown around
with a big captive group of teenagers. In a photo posted to Twitter, Carey quickly held up seven fingers next to a lone digit from a Pella player, commemorating Pella’s 7-1 loss to Fairfield (Ia.) High earlier in the day.
While everyone was surprised to see Carrey pop up on their doorsteps, no one was more stunned than Pella coach Jesse Jablonski, who had admonished his players from bothering Carrey when a few had noticed him in the back of the quick serve restaurant where the team was getting post game ice cream.(Read More..)
