abootzky
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- Jun 15, 2007
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I'm a longtime season ticket holder who, while not sure the name change was really necessary, wants there to continue to be a pro football team to go watch in my home city. The choice with which I've been left is to either take my ticket $$$ & loyalty elsewhere (effectively cutting off my nose to spite my face as an Edmonton football fan) or to stop getting sucked into the ineffectual political bitching/bickering/blaming/posturing and instead come up with a non-jokey suggestion for a new team name that can be marketed to both us old(ish) die-hards and to badly needed younger fans as well.
I think that they should keep the green & gold colours, the EE lettering on a newly shaped (non-oval) logo and call themselves the Edmonton Express. The powerful & speedy train aspect should be strongly emphasized, as should getting aboard and enjoying the fast ride. They could hand out mini train whistles to fans at the first home game (that sound nothing like ref's whistles), switching back & forth as time goes on within the marketing plan between modern bullet trains and old-timey locomotives. The time has come for our CFL team and its remaining & new fans to embrace the train- just not physically.
I think that they should keep the green & gold colours, the EE lettering on a newly shaped (non-oval) logo and call themselves the Edmonton Express. The powerful & speedy train aspect should be strongly emphasized, as should getting aboard and enjoying the fast ride. They could hand out mini train whistles to fans at the first home game (that sound nothing like ref's whistles), switching back & forth as time goes on within the marketing plan between modern bullet trains and old-timey locomotives. The time has come for our CFL team and its remaining & new fans to embrace the train- just not physically.
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