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4 Days Left…Excitement Is Building

by IwoCPO on 09/13/07 at 05:37 AM ET
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The votes are pouring in at such a rate that I’m starting to get nervous. My lips are so cold.  Four days remain in our contest to “replace the Fire on Ice marketing campaign with something that doesn’t suck quite as much.”

Below you’ll find the selections and the current vote tally.  All votes for the next 24 hours will be made in the comment section of this post.

HockeyinHD has proven himself as exactly the kind of juvenile reader who represents us all.  His entry, the first submitted, emphasized exactly that.

Entry 1: Thanks Gary

Where HinHD made us giggle with him like the children we are, Matt Schwartz used the contest to show off, to show us up.  That made me sad that someone would want us all to feel so badly about our own creative shortcomings.  Not since I stabbed Jimmy Karish with a pencil in 5th grade art class with Mrs. Curzon have I felt such shame.

Entry 2: Fire In Your Wallet

Pete at Yzerman is God impressed me since his debut last season.  His stock rose, yes I said “stock rose”, when he dropped a BJ on us with the third entry.

Entry 3: BJ’s For Us All

Aaron from Phoenix, clearly inspired by what Pete had to offer with Entry 3, chimed in next.  He preyed on our greatest fear and struck gold.

Entry 4: Dom..I swear to god if you don’t stay in that f&*ng net...

If Aaron took the easy way out by capitalizing on our insecurities, TeamDub went the opposite direction and lit the torches for the most unpopular Detroit sports figure since, well, since forever.

Entry 5:  Fire Millen

Saginaw John checked in next with concrete evidence that residents of his hometown are the most brilliant, wittiest, most socially responsible people in the history of mid-michigan towns mentioned by Simon and Garfunkel.  I have no idea where he scored the picture of Grampa Pinhead but it worked.

Entry 6:  Fun For All Ages

The pride of Sagnasty was far from done.  Oh no.  This one’s for Don Cherry.

Entry 7:  Soft Swede

And now we get downright dirty.  I can’t tell you the negotiations involved, but suffice it to say the version you’re about to see wasn’t the original.  That one’s hidden away in my sock drawer for the next time I go to sea.  An anonymous poster provided us our eigth entry and it put A2Y on the same map as that little vixen from High School Musical.

Entry 8:  Below The Fold

The contest went silent for three weeks after that anonymous entry.  Why?  I don’t know.  Perhaps we were in shock.  Maybe you all started surfing porn after seeing the 8th entry.  No matter the reason, we were about to wrap it up with 8 when Pete returned with an eye opener. 

Entry 9:  Emmmmma

Saginaw John snuck another entry in just before the polls opened for business last night. 

Entry 10:  Addicted To Red

On to the standings:

Stay In The Net You Bastard Czech Miracle of Insanity:  5 votes
Fire In Your Wallet: 4 votes
Red Alert:  4 votes
Addicted to Red: 2 votes
Bettman’s Stick Figures: 2 votes
BJ’s For Everyone: 2 votes
Emmmmmmmmmmma: 2 votes
Fun For All Ages: 2 votes
Darren Garcia Fan Club: 0 votes

Voting continues in the comment section of this post.  I don’t really care if you vote twice.  Let your conscience be your guides.

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Here’s a bit of helpful information for those of you who may, in the future, enter some kind of event which revolves around votes:

If in the vote standings your entry isn’t even listed… mayyyybe you shouldn’t exactly be running scenarios on what you’re going to do with the first place prize.

Posted by HockeyinHD on 09/13/07 at 07:00 AM ET

HD, I like you but you confused me. Did I not list an entry?

Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 09/13/07 at 07:05 AM ET

Below the fold is the one not on the list.

That’s the problem I run into with sarcasm… it’s almost impossible to be at all helpful while employing it.

Posted by HockeyinHD on 09/13/07 at 10:27 AM ET

Addendum:  Unless you renamed it.  At any rate, there are 9 listed and 10 entries… so someone’s getting shafted.

Posted by HockeyinHD on 09/13/07 at 10:29 AM ET

You may be right HD. I’ll do a re-count this afternoon and update if necessary.

Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 09/13/07 at 10:34 AM ET

This contest was a great display of humor and graphical talent, nice job to all the folks creating them. It’s hard to choose with so many good entries, but i narrowed it down to ‘Addicted to Red’ because it very family friendly and could see it actually being used in somewhere.

Posted by LowRider from Grand Rapids, MI on 09/13/07 at 11:38 AM ET

I had a discussion with my conscience, and it confirmed that if I really can’t decide between two entries, and they are actually tied, there is nothing wrong with casting one vote for each.

(Plus, it was a late entry and not there the first time I voted.)

I toss a vote to Addicted to Red.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 09/13/07 at 12:06 PM ET

I have to vote for “Stay In The Net You Bastard Czech Miracle of Insanity” because that is what I say most at the TV (or some such variation if my daughter is around).

Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 09/13/07 at 03:16 PM ET

i emailed this to sean baligian,he is going to use it on his show

Posted by Speedy Sammich from DTown on 09/13/07 at 05:00 PM ET

What a fantastic selection of ideas! I’d like to cast a vote for Addicted to Red.

Posted by Trader Joe from Travers City on 09/14/07 at 08:48 AM ET

I gotta go with HockeyinHD’s “Thanks Gary”, since he obviously worked the hardest and had no help from his parents.

Posted by Matt from Chicago on 09/14/07 at 12:32 PM ET

You know, Addicted To Red has a nice advantage as it can be modified to have a different reason displayed depending on how certain players perform.  Maybe match it to the best player of the most recent game.  Extra work I know, but I think it would be pretty cool.

Posted by Stuck at work on 09/14/07 at 08:59 PM ET

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