“Zlatan spoke up and said something along the lines of: ‘In games like these we need to have more bite, we need to be nastier. Like Kevin,’” says Kitchen. “And he pointed to me, over in my direction. I was like, looking around, to my left, to my right, making sure there wasn’t a Kevin on the team. I said, ‘Are you pointing to me? My name is Perry. It’s right above my locker.’”
“Yes,” replied Ibrahimovic. “You are Kevin.”
“The guy was so confident that he stood there and just tried to tell me I didn’t know my own name, man.”
“He called Perry ‘Kevin’ every day for the next year and a half,” Pontius says, still laughing. “I swear, to this very day, if he saw Perry again he would just say, ‘What’s up, Kevin?’”