April 2009
11 posts
Kids and sports
I have to tell you that my parents were the greatest for a variety of reasons, but one thing that really always stood out—even as an ignorant kid—was their involvement in my sports activities.
My parents were the folks that were at every game. I remember in baseball we used to play all of our games during the day. At the end of the season, they’d schedule one or two night games so parents...
Lions rebranding starts today →
Last week the Detroit Lions pulled the curtain on a new logo and uniforms. If you don’t pay too much attention to this stuff you’d hardly recognize the changes if not for the team making it…
Chris Osgood
If the FCC were to ban all talk about quarterbacks, closers and goalies, sports radio would completely go out of business.
Anyone at the Red Wing game last night notice Chris Osgood’s slow skate around as he was announced the game’s first star? It was a deliberate glide on the ice as he held his goalie stick high up in the air. All I could think was that that stick symbolized a big...
WatchNo Detroit???? Am I gonna have to go to Toronto? Who’s in?
An inferiority complex is never good for a brand →
This past weekend the Detroit area hosted another national sporting event—the NCAA Final Four. Over the past 10 years events like this have become a fairly common occurrence. We’ve had the Super…
WatchNightly football helmet quiz…
Effective...At what cost? →
I first learned of this anti-smoking spot yesterday morning while watching the Today Show. I have to say that I think the spot is brilliant and could end up being one of the most…
How Twitter can help your business' brand →
Are you on Twitter? If not that’s ok, but surely you’ve now heard of it. Chances are you’ve read about it in the mainstream media—a group that is generally split into two camps: the first…