Vancouver Canucks Movie - Celebrating Not Winning and Stuff
November 7, 2008
People make sports movies for lots of reasons.
Like being a massive underdog and winning anyway, or coming together as a team to overcome adversity, overthrowing racism and indifference, or even just to celebrate the awesomeness of what its like to be on a team.
There is usually a common thread running through these movies, and it usually pertains to one of two things:
Winning, or losing…a lot.
Your team won a championship? Hell, make a damn movie. Lose for 80 or 100 straight years? Sure, make a damn movie.
But…wallow in perpetual mediocrity for 38 years? Make a movie?
Ya, Watch the video after the jump:
7th Man meets quiet, uneventful demise.
November 5, 2008
It’s gone!?!
Yes, I think its gone.
We’ve been ranting about the redonkulous Canucks 7th man bulls*** for a while here at GoCanuckYourself, starting with this post, then chiming in on the CDC message boards HERE and HERE. And have even made and exclusive Canucks Fan Quotes 7th Man edition post on our site.
All dedicated to the lamest marketing ploy I’ve seen by a pro sports team since free AA battery night at a Springfield Isotopes game.
And I think that officially, we might have killed it.
Have a gander: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=f6bcd024-cac3-4f6f-ad3d-63bb38c23c3f
Canucks Fan Quotes: The Seventh Man Edition
November 3, 2008
I hate this promotion. Like, I effing haaaate it.
You know theres something completely bass ackwards about it when its something that most Canucks Fans actually agree with me about.
I actually thought that the ridiculous amount that I hate the whole 7th man thing would be a good indication of how much people on the CDC forums would somehow love the idea…because thats how it normally works. So imagine my shock when I started reading some of this awesomeness:
“Why they would honour businessmen, who don’t even know who is playing half the time, is beyond me.” ~BenDrinkin
This one is sweet, so much anger:
”I was at the game when they unveiled the 7th man and it was straight up embarrassing. We head to our seats to find the cheapest pieces of s&*% little flags with the number 7 on them, and I’m thinking OH NO, what is going on here.
Then little Cliffy and some old fart comes out with a podium and a yellow plastic hockey stick attached to it. The announcer starts in with some terrible countdown and I look at my friends and we all can’t believe the cheese that we’re seeing here, not to mention being laughed at by the Oiler fans surrounding us. How do you defend it?
Whoever came up with this idea of a 7th man needs to be fired right now.” ~Ukee12
“it was a little awkward last nite with Gino Odjick as the “7th man” … when he was supposed to start the chant “Go Canucks Go” his mike didnt’ work and the look on his face was like “get me out of here” ….awkward!!!!” ~Linden rules
Canucks 7th Man = fail
November 3, 2008
Imagine you really really wanted to be an awesome hockey player, so you gave yourself the Hart Trophy before you ever scored a goal or played a game.
Or better yet, you were in the NHL for like 30 years and you wanted to be a way better player, so your team announced you as the seasons MVP before the season started in hopes that you would become that good.
Thats pretty much how the Canucks went about it for this 7th man hullabaloo.
But in this case they ripped off the idea from football, and planned a big-ass overblown ceremony for their completely made-up corporate uber schlockiness like it was some sort of significant and important award that hadn’t been hatched in a corporate boardroom by marketing execs looking for a desparate way to increase brand loyalty in these troubled economic times. Read more
