Gameday #3: A great opening video produced by the Vancouver Canucks.

Just published the newest edition of GAMEDAY, my email newsletter about great sports creative. This edition is about a great opening video produced by the Vancouver Canucks that captures the team's new personality under head coach John Tortorella. You can read it and subscribe here...

What a video scoreboard promotion looks like in Japan: "Home Run Cam"

Check out this really fun video from the Orix Buffaloes, a pro baseball team in Japan. I think it is called "Home Run Cam". It was one of the entries in this year's Golden Matrix Awards.

And the crowd goes wild for a 95-year-old Sens fan

There have been plenty of fun fan moments this year at Scotiabank Place. One of my favourites happened earlier this month when we welcome 95-year-old Isobel Gallipeau to the game. It was easily the loudest ovation of the night. The Ottawa Citizen has a story here with some background on Gallipeau and her experience at the Sens game.

Minnesota Timberwolves Christmas card

This Christmas card video from the Minnesota Timberwolves is well done:

VIDEO: 1976 beer box stacking contest

Saw this recently on the GameOps.com blog.
From the Chicago White Sox, August 22, 1976.

Grand Rapids Griffins shoot a GoPro camera out of a t-shirt cannon

Don't try this at home.


 (via Puck Daddy)

Please welcome tonight's guest PA announcer, Will Ferrell

Well done New Orleans Hornets, well done.

VIDEO: Capcity (The Sens Mix) and the story behind it

Back in November, Ottawa musician The Joynt released a great video called Capcity.  In the video, Peter Joynt is wearing a Sens t-shirt .  I called him up and asked if he was a Sens fan, and if he'd like to write a verse about the Sens that we could use at the arena.  Peter said yes, wrote the verse, and then asked if he could shoot a video too.   Here's the end result. I think it's great:

VIDEO: Creepy dancing Santa Claus, seen today at Lowe's

Dancing Santa, seen today at Lowe's Home Improvement retail outlet in Hazeldean Road in Stittsville, Ontario. Retailing for around $129.99 (I think). The children were scared.  Hip swaying like this is still illegal in several U.S. states and parts of Alberta.

VIDEO: Ohio University Marching Band plays LMFAO's Party Rock during a halftime show

VIDEO: Red, Black & White - The Heritage Uniform

Here's a video I produced for the Ottawa Senators / Sens TV. Back in 2007, a Gatineau-based graphic designer named Jacob Barrette posted a jersey concept to a message board. Four years later, and the Sens skating out wearing a jersey inspired by that design.

 The title of the video borrows from a line in the original constitution of the Ottawa Hockey Club: "“The colours of the Association shall be red, black and white.”

 

VIDEO: Phineas and Ferb perform the L.A. Dodgers stadium conduct rules

Absolutely brilliant video. Saw this at the IDEA conference earlier this month in Kansas City.

How the new scoreboard was unveiled at Fenway Park (video)

I thought this was a creative, brilliant way to introduce the new video scoreboard at Fenway Park:

Great Moments in Rain Delays: Clemson vs. Davidson (video)

(Thanks to Spydergrrl for the pointer!)

VIDEO: Montreal Canadiens anthem guy sings at a tavern

I thought this was cool - Charles Prevost Linton, who sings the national anthems at most Montreal Canadiens games, sings the anthem at a Montreal tavern before an away game:



Also, I love the vintage pics of Charles on his web page.

(Thanks to Stuntman Stu for the video tip.)

VIDEO: Highlights & memories from the Senators season

Song is "These Days" by the Foo Fighters.  The new Foo Fighters album is full of great highlight video music.

Yes, we did play that "Friday" song at the Sens game last night

Video tribute to Chris Kelly (Feb 18, 2011)

On Tuesday, February 15 the Sens trade Chris Kelly to the Boston Bruins.
On Friday, February 18 the Boston Bruins came to Ottawa for a game and Chris Kelly makes his debut.

Here's the tribute video (via Sens TV) we played during the first period. Great reaction from the fans - they cheered throughout and gave Chris a standing ovation. Great job by our video team to turn this around & great idea for the song - "Where Am I Going" by Matt Mays.

Washington Nationals Presidents spotted at a performance of the Nutcracker

More info / background here.

Tom Green unleashes the fury at Washington Capitals games

From the Washington Post:

For several years now, Caps fans have risen to their feet late in the third period and screamed "Unleash the Fury" along with Tom Green, as the culmination of the team's late-game rally video. Saturday night, the Tom Green who screamed inside Verizon Center happened to be about 15 pounds heavier, and wearing a red Mike Green jersey. (Video below.)

How did this happen?

Well, Michael Wurman was hired as director of game entertainment and TV production last season, he immediately thought about trying to integrate Green into the team's Unleash the Fury sensation, which has produced posters and t-shirts and personalized jerseys and other bits of Fury. He reached out to Green's team, but never heard back. As the playoffs approached, Wurman sent a message through Green's Web site, and lo and behold, he soon got a phone call from Green's agent, who passed him on to Green's publicist.

It turned out the comic was coming to D.C. in the late spring, and so Wurman crafted a plan to get Green inside the building for a playoff game. Alas, the Caps were eliminated before Green's scheduled visit.

In late July, though, Green had a gig at the D.C. Improv, and so the effort was renewed, and everyone agreed this was the time. Wurman and his crew went to the Improv with the Mike Green jersey and a guitar to mimic the original scene, and within 30 minutes they had what they needed. Their version of the scene starts with a wider shot than the original, so that the Caps logo and red jersey are immediately apparent, but other than that, it's a pretty close match.