I've seen some really strange promotions before, but this one is really odd!The Bakersfield Condors would like their fans to bring a pillow with them to the game. This way, they could go for the Guinness Book of World Records for hosting the world's biggest pillow fight. The current holder set the record almost a year ago in April '05 in the University of Albany.
I guess they thought of a better way to accommodate their fans that fall asleep to the quality of ECHL hockey. But if they are in a more charitable mood, they are invited to donate their used pillows to charity.
Following the pillow fight, fans will be allowed to toss their pillows onto the ice where they will be collected and donated to local charities including the Bakersfield Homeless Shelter, Goodwill and The Salvation Army.
[Via: ECHL.com Official Website]
2 comments:
The scary thing? An ECHL team doing such a promotion doesn't really surprise me...some of those teams will do ANYTHING to draw fans.
Now, if an NHL team did a similar promotion? Depending upon the team, I'd either be laughing my butt off (the Rangers and Red Wings...I'd love to see Yzerman lay a nice "Whap!" on Shanny. >:D) or be royally embarassed (the Canes and Pens).
In Florida around Christmas the Everblades (ECHL) does a Teddy Bear toss for charities. Where fans bring stuffed animals and toss them on the ice. I atteneded that game and the visiting team had no idea that it was to happen that night. So they were a bit taken aback when stuffed animals went sailing on to the ice. It was funny and a lot of fun as well...
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