7 Chapter Seven: The Last Dance, Episode IX (2020)

Very few Americans knew who Craig Fite was in May of 2020, and very few still probably remember why they knew who he was for his 15 minutes of fame during the spring of the pandemic. Fite is a regular, hard-working everyday American who happened to work at what now has to be the most iconic Pizza Hut location on the planet in Park City, Utah during the summer of ‘97.

Unfortunately for Craig Fite, he can’t hold the distinction of most famous or infamous former Pizza Hut employee because Pink also worked at The Hut before her Grammy-winning music career took off. Still, Fite found himself as the center of attention after The Last Dance came to an end when he came forward as the man who not only prepared, but also delivered the fateful pie on that fateful night.

Fite has a few corrections to Grover and Koehler’s version of events which he shared on the several media appearances he did after he was identified. They are as follows:

• In 1997, there were two pizza delivery options open late in Park City, not one. There was the Pizza Hut where Fite worked as the manager, the place Grover ultimately called, and there was also a Dominos.
• Despite living in Park City, Utah, Fite was and is a Bulls fan and named his son after Michael Jordan.
• It was common knowledge the Bulls were staying at the Park City Marriott and the Pizza Hut had delivered several pizzas to the Bulls without incident all week.
• When the call came in, Fite didn’t want to miss an opportunity to make a pizza for his favorite team, and possibly his favorite player, so he took matters into his own hands. He made the large Thin N’ Crispy with extra pepperoni like he’d be serving it to the Pope.
• Fite didn’t normally do deliveries, but since he knew delivering this pizza offered the opportunity to possibly rub shoulders with the Chicago fucking Bulls, he boxed and bagged up the pizza and hopped in the car.
• A fellow employee hopped in with him, also interested in catching a glimpse at the greatest basketball dynasty to ever exist. So two guys deliver the pizza, not five, George. Also, can you blame them?

In The Last Dance, Grover, Koehler, and Jordan, set the scene in dramatic fashion.

“I put this pizza down,” Grover said, “and I said I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

As the closest personal attendants of the G.O.A.T., surely, Grover or Koehler inhaled a slice to see if it was poisoned before allowing it to go anywhere near Jordan’s mouth, right?! Like in Gladiator when Hagen takes a bite of Maximus’ stew first because everyone had found he was the general who commanded Legions and he was “father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance in this life or the next…”

Jordan was in a room with all of his security guys. Someone had to have taken at least a bite first. Please tell me one of these guys whose jobs were literally to protect Jordan took a bite first?!

“I eat the pizza, all by myself, no one else ate it,” Jordan says in Episode IX of The Last Dance. “I wake up at 2:30 and I’m throwing up left and right.”

Question No. 4: Michael, asking as someone who orders the same thing as you at Pizza Hut, is there a chance that you weren’t poisoned and that you just ate an entire large Thin N’ Crispy with extra pepperoni and your body merely acted accordingly? Just checking.