One of my favorite things about the post season in the NHL is playoff beards. Everything from a few stray hairs here and there on the young ‘uns to full blown mountain man beards on old heads. The Flyers haven’t been great on the beard front in recent playoff years. I’m hoping this year that trend will be reversed. Playoff beards are good luck! Or at least good fun.
Best of all, this year I’ve discovered a site devoted to playoff beards. Watch along with us!
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Apparently, Michel Therien had trouble with the officiating in the Pens game with the Flyers on Wednesday. That’s rich. Unless he was complaining about his own player not being called for butt-ending Scott Hartnell in the face and exploding his nose with no call, I can’t see where he’s coming from.
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The NHL really wanted tight playoff races. It wanted every game to count. But it couldn’t have dreamed of a scenario like the one it had this year, with races for a number of playoff spots not decided until the last week of the season, and in the case of the Southeast Division, the last game of the season. Read the rest of this entry »
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With the sister in from Cali for Easter I’ve been a bit out of the loop. Add on the cold from hell (my head hurt so bad last night I considered the ER–really) and I’m just getting the cobwebs out.
Happily, the cobwebs are coming unwebbed to the mellifluous tones of Michael Missanelli’s return to local radio. They may call it 950ESPN now, but really, from 9-1 its local Jody Mac and from 3-7 its local Mike Missanelli.
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Tonight the Flyers held their second session (the first was last Thursday) of a Season Ticket Holder special event. A fairly small group of fans (I’m not good at these estimates, but I’d be surprised if it were as many as 200), who’d reserved their spots with customer services, was welcomed to dinner (split between the Cadillac Grill and the Lexus Club) and to a series of four question and answer opportunities, with:
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Although this isn’t technically about sports, since my musings started in the Wachovia Center parking lot on the way out of a game, I’m going to slide it in.
So I’m walking to the subway after the Flyers victory Sunday night and pass in front of a guy driving out in his Porsche SUV. HUH? What in the world does Porsche–fast, performance, sexy Porsche–have to do with SUVs?
Then this morning I get out of a cab in front of my office and pass a Porsche station wagon. A really ugly grey monstrosity of a Porsche station wagon.
Honestly, if you have the money to buy a Porsche, why aren’t you in a little red two-door convertible coupe? Because these big dumpy Porsches aren’t giving you the bang for your buck. You’re junk does NOT look bigger in the Porsche SUV or station wagon. You don’t look sexy, or cool, or even rich. You just look stupid.
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I love this ad:
My favorites? The women (except quickie mcquick quick, which is the only lame one). Adore “I got strong all day,” especially her tone of voice.
The 60 second one is completely different, but you see the participants at work. And it’s great to see the kids emulating the athletes.
When it comes to advertising, Nike just does it.
(Links added instead of embedded images when Nike had You Tube pull the ads. These links are to the Nike Biz site.)
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Last week, the Flyers sent out season ticket packages for the 2008-09 season. There was a price increase, not that unusual, although with a salary cap and a still not quite competitive team, while the economy moves into recession, it may be a harder sell than they expect.
But the big surprise, and a very unpleasant one, was that they are moving the entire first row of fans, many of whom have had those seats since the beginning of Flyers history, to create a premium seating row with a much higher price than the lower bowl and built in (without a choice offered) concession value.
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Looking at this it’s becoming more and more likely the freefalling Philadelphia Flyers will be spending April on vacation, not in the playoffs. And I have to admit, I’d rather not spend good money to see this ragtag mess get dominated in the first round.
Of course, my feelings about the play of the team aren’t being assuaged by the actions of the front office. Awaiting me in the mailbox yesterday was the season ticket brochure for 2008-09. I guess now we know why they announced the price increase so early. They want a down payment on next year by April 15. This isn’t exactly good timing. They might have better luck waiting until the bad taste is out of season ticket holders’ mouths from this disastrous second half before they ask for a deposit on next year.
Let’s see.
Bad collapse at end of season. Check.
Moving long-time season ticket holders, some charter season ticket holders, out of the first row to cash in. Check.
Asking season ticket holders to put a deposit on seats before the playoff refunds can be processed. Check.
What a way to celebrate spring.
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March 20, 20084:58
I’ve discovered that if you blog you can’t watch and if you watch you can’t blog. This is the first and last running commentary!
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