dumpnchase said:alright this is may sound a bit off the wall. but how about the nhl advertise in rap videos.
just follow me on this....
Hip hop apparel is largely based on sports teams, specifically basketball, baseball, and of course football. But i have yet to see a snoop or ludacris video where they're wearing hockey jerseys. I see the A's, Raiders, lakers but no sharks or rangers (and on a side note, the maple leafs might want to add a few more leaves to their logo, that might attract more people).
So i say lets have the NHL heads throw some money to have hip hop artists wear hockey jerseys in their videos, thats the best advertisement you can get. Just imagine people open up the inlay card of big boi's new album and bam! they see him wearing a thrashers jersey.
Lets face it the NHL's 'We Believe In Hockey' thing is mind numbingly Pejorative Slured, and all that sun tzu hockey warrior stuff....i mean come on! its pathetic. So why not use more subtle approaches to advertisement?
oh and by the way, from now on i think jaromir jagr should wear an 8 inch clock medallion around his neck and refer to himself as "Jaar-OOO Jaar", it sounds a lot cooler.
pld459666 said:Wearing the Penguins Jersey
I believe it wasn't named or numbered, but I'm not sure.
PortlandRanger said:Lil Jon was at the thrashers game on saturdays.
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WHATTTT!
No, Me and 80% of my friends417 TO MTL said:Does that mean i'm the only black guy who like hockey?
What a dumb comment...
PeterSidorkiewicz said:Why dont we get rid of the ice, put in a floor, get rid of hockey nets, put in basketball hoops, get rid of the black puck for an orange ball too.
discostu said:I have no idea how getting hip hop artists to wear NHL jerseys is somehow going to result in the NHL turning into basketball. No one is even suggesting the slightest change to the game here, they are just suggesting marketing the sport, as it is, to a demographic that the NHL has not traditionally gone after.
Teemu said:Yea, the 99% white demographic of the sport would love that
GWhale said:I don't even know who Lil Jon is, but the best approach to get an obviously unreached fan base is to build rinks in densely populated depressed urban areas, like is being done in Hartford. http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/releases/complex/
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That's much better and more sound approach than paying some rapper to wear a jersey in a video...
Epsilon said:The NHL could do well for itself to embrace hip-hop culture givne the way the NBA has tried to do everything possible to denigrate it. It could open up a new market and bring a lot more exposure.
PortlandRanger said:Most people who buy Rap CDs are surburban white kids..
PortlandRanger said:LOL!!! Shameless plug for hartford
By the way, anyone watch the braves game last night? The commentators were talking about the Thrashers and how everyone is talking about them.
GWhale said:No, I was plugging the project though, I suppose. I even donated money to it because I liked it so much. It will also be the closest rink to me now.