August 23, 2007
The Mariners Want You to Wear Blue
The Mariners announced that they're calling the M's Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday series with the first-place Angels "Lolla-Blue-za."
They're encouraging fans to wear blue on game day, and they'll have marketing folks wandering downtown, rewarding fans in blue. One lucky blue-wearer will get to throw out the first pitch!
(For those of you who weren't high schoolers in the early 90s, "Lolla-Blue-Za" is a play on "Lollapalooza," a touring music festival that was a huge deal in 1991 and 1992 and thereafter sucked.)
Mayor Nickels is getting in on the act, declaring the 27th to be "Mariner Monday." Woo-hoo!
We'll be wearing blue on Monday for sure--both to support the team and because it brings out our eyes.
It would be pretty cool to fill Safeco with blue--check out what Nebraska's Memorial Stadium looks like on game day.
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Odd that the Mariners would name their promotion after a music festival held in Chicago. They could have gone with "Bumberblue" or "Bluebershoot" or even "Blue-squatch."
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The Nebraska link is broken...
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Thanks brappy, link fixed.
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Did you see the Lollapalooza lineup for this year? It seems they started to turn the long trend of lameness around in 2005, bringing it into blockbuster territory for 2007.
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I'm still mad at Lollapalooza, because the one year I got my shit together to go, 1993, the acts were Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr., Fishbone, and Arrested Development. They can bite me.
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Unfortunately the Mariners' navy blue isn't as "radiant" as Nebraska's bright red, and the effect won't be as awesome. Now, if they changed their color to Royal blue (like the Seahawks' old Largent-era uniforms), filling the stadium with that would be impressive.
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When the Michigan student section decided to go for the "everybody-wears-the-same-color" effect, they started with blue on the grounds that everybody owns something blue. After a few games of that, they printed off maize (aka yellow) T-shirts for everyone and it was a lot more eyecatching.
The problem for the M's is that their main color choices are blue and teal. A group of people wearing teal can't look impressive.
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and, more importantly, an individual wearing teal, wandering the streets hours after the game, can get his ass kicked.
why aren't the seats at safeco blue instead of green? and why aren't they sharper image massage chairs?
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My favorite indicator that the Seahawks were going to be annihilated by the Steelers in the Super Bowl was a tee shirt I saw downtown somewhere. It was teal and it read "Teal Beats Steel!"