Q and A with the Gongshow Boys.....
Thursday, June 15, 2006

Posted by MAC@GSH

Hey Boys, we get a lot of questions sent in to us so we thought we would document some of them for your reading pleasure…. Did you guys play at a high level of hockey? Read On...

We played Tier II Junior “A” in the Central Junior “A” Hockey League (Ontario) and NCAA in college, before retiring to the shady depths of beer league hockey where we dangle old men and young kids, mostly for an ego booster.

How did you start Gongshow?

Over a few cold ones we had the idea to throw GONGSHOW on a dozen hats for the boys on our junior squad, and things went from there. And because we had a vision from Maurice “The Rocket” Richard one late night when we were really drunk and he told us that the hockey gods wanted us to make them this gear so hockey players everywhere could look mint and wheel at the bar. Seriously.

What the hell is a Gongshow??

If you honestly have to ask that question, you must have stumbled upon this site and aren’t a true hockey player. We’re not telling you, so beat it.


Do any famous people wear Gongshow?

Sure, you know Screech off Saved by the Bell? He rocks our gear, right over his big fro…..On a serious note, seeing as Gongshow does very minimal adverting and has spread all through word of mouth, getting the right people rocking our gear has been working so far. Well, as for “Celebrities”, this year we geared up The Tragically Hip band with some Icebreakers for there outdoor hockey game in Kingston over Christmas, and we hooked up Elisha Cuthbert (The Girl Next Door) with a sweet PINKY girls lid. In the past, Gongshow has been Off the Record on TSN (TV), and has geared up the entire World Junior Championship Team Canada squad with gear in Finland. But to be honest boys, the way we really get our name out there (besides you beauties supporting the brand and spreading the word) comes with hooking up the boys in the big Show.

Ok its time to start name dropping (I apologize, but we get asked this a lot so here it goes). This year we geared up the entire teams of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Minnesota Wild, Tampa Bay Lightning, Ottawa Senators, and the Phoenix Coyotes. Some notable players that rocked our gear this year were Brad Richards (he loves the word Gongshow), Sidney Crosby (he rocked a fur icebreakers on Sportsnet coast to coast, beauty), Jason Spezza (he rocks the Roadie), Sean Avery (he is rocken the Interviewer this weekend out and about around Toronto as he is town for the Much Music Video awards), Ray Emery (he rocks the Sherpa, this guys a beauty), Jeremy Roenick (need I say more?), and tonnes more beauties were spotted on TV rocken lids like Chris Phillips, Brent Burns, Maxime Talbot, Paul Ranger, Modin, etc etc. Even Rick Tochett was rocking a Sherpa lid around the room, his favorite I am told. Of course these are just some of the boys that we geared up, but you get the point.

Do you pay NHL players to wear your gear?

No, we have a lot of contacts in and around the NHL/AHL through friends that are playing in the show, and just networking. The boys rock our gear for the same reason you and I do: because they like it – simple as that.

Do you guys have an office or do you operate from a trailer?

You got us; we have a souped up trailer outside of town that we splice internet from a rich house down the road. We cook hot dogs in our armpits in the summer and knit Gongshow gear from old yarn and dead dog hair….

Yes, we have an office in Ottawa, about 5 minutes from downtown. We still have a shipping center outside of town that ships all the gear out, and from here its more the paper crunching, although we do have a sick show room with all our new gear displayed, couches, beer fridge, TV for sports, play station, and were trying to find one of this old bubble hockey games. Its nothing too fancy, but it’s a place to hang our hat and we like it. Of course, we do ALL of our dirty work from here. I will leave it at that….

Where does all the Gongshow Gear get made and do you use child labor?

All of our gear is made in China, and no we don’t use child labor. Our factories are checked and have passed all the tests. We do however use monkey labor, where we chain up chimps to sewing machines and tease them with bananas until they do all our work, but hey don’t tell anyone – those hairy bastards save us a shit load of cash. Our best worker we call him Hanzoos, this thing is uglier then a shit house rat, but can knit better then your gramma.


Ok boys that’s well for now, we will add more as they come in.

Macker