Bernie the Rally Bird
I didn’t have time to mention this earlier due to exams and whatnot, but some geniuses at Lets Go Wings forums have created Bernie the Rally Bird. In Game #1 of the series, there was a black bird flying around the arena and even landed at the blue line during the game. Some t-shirts were created, which you can check out here and here.
After these t-shirts were created, a few pondered the idea of sending each Red Wings player a t-shirt. After a member (13dats) who works on Pavel Datsyuk’s official website called Datsyuk, who talked to Nick Lidstrom, they were given permission to send over t-shirts for all the players. They then raised money to purchase 25 t-shirts for the team and came up with $305 in donations (including money from yours truly). Each person who made a donation sponsored a player or two. I for sure am Kris Draper’s sponsor, but I might also be Niklas Kronwall’s sponsor as well.
They will receive the t-shirts when they return to Detroit on Friday and hopefully we’ll hear some reaction from the players whether through 13dats or maybe on FSN (if the players really like it). I also bought a ringer t-shirt myself so I have one matching the Wings.
I want to thank HenrikRules40, SuperCalaFilppulastic!, Never Forget Mac #25, and Drake_Marcus for working so hard to make this work. And thanks to 13dats for talking to Datsyuk and getting the okay from the team. Go Wings!
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April 20th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Where does the money from the shirts go? Will it be a charity thing, or is somone going to get rich from being a genius? Do you know?
April 20th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
From my understanding, no money is being made off the t-shirts except for Cafepress as the maker of the t-shirt design just put the base price required by Cafepress. I will ask him and get back to you though.