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Polls Closed: Voting Starts Tonite

by IwoCPO on 09/10/07 at 09:36 PM ET
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It was mid July when the Red Wing marketing savants unveiled this little beauty, a campaign for the ages.  Designed by children, geared for the the ignorant and roundly criticized by smart people everywhere.  Yes, “Fire on Ice” made its debut and the brilliance of it was startling to us all.

The pure childlike genius of this creation prompted a groundswell of artistry unlike anything seen here since TeamDub danced in his garage on webcam during a live blog last April.  The contest to “replace the fire on ice logo because it sucks and sucks hard” began July 17th and wrapped up this evening.  Now, your voice will be heard.  We’ll open up the polls and determine a winner.  And oh what a winner that winner will be.  Displayed on the A2Y front page, a 25 dollar gift certificate to Ice Jerseys and the never ending admiration of all 13 of us.

Ready?  Excellence awaits you.

Here’s how this is going to work.  I’ll leave this as a sticky until mid-morning on Tuesday, then place it back on top every evening for a week.  One vote per person in the comment section of this post, or several if you feel like creating new usernames and all that.  Whatever.  Vote.  Vote for your favorite, or just vote for the one you think will embarrass the rest of us to see it on A2Y for the duration.

Gather the kids.  It’s democracy time.

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

And there you have them.  Pick the winner.  Pick the image we’ll forward to the Wing front office as our replacement for “Fire On Ice.”  I’ll put it on billboards all over Detroit.  I’ll buy ad space in the local rags.  I’ll put it on t-shirts and send one to each of you for free.  No I won’t. I’m not doing any of that, but I will stick it on the A2Y front page.

When you vote, do so however you please: artist’s name, entry number, entry title. I don’t care.  You’ve got a week. 

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