I hope everyone had a great holiday. It’s been a busy and exciting year here at Gameops.com including our new site, which continues to be like a shiny new toy under the Christmas tree for me. The new site makes updating and adding new content to the site easier than ever, so while you are [...]
December 2008
This just crossed my desk and took my by surprise.
Newsday in New York published an article about how companies should continue investing in corporate gift-giving noting:
84 percent of people remember the name of an advertiser on a promotional product they’ve received.
Promotional products provide a better value to marketers than TV, radio and other popular advertising.
Corporate gift-giving is still [...]
During a selected timeout of the 1st or 2nd quarter, the LA Lakers features a video scoreboard text feature that asks arena fans to participate in a virtual burger eating contest by texting in their seating level to 525377. As texts are received from the designated seating levels (i.e. the upper or lower levels), a [...]
The Las Vegas Wranglers are hosting Blagojevich night on January 30th, with a couple fun twists that has already caught the eye of Chicago media (and probably federal prosecutors).
The Wranglers will unveil special new vintage prison uniforms, complete with horizontal black and white stripes. Each player will also have his own prison number assigned to [...]
During December we are clearing out some products in The Store.
Parachutes
Most of you are familiar with the parachute drop. It’s been a “Best of Gameops.com” winner and it’s a staple for many teams. Most use smaller chutes that allow you to drop small, light, soft items or coupons. Some teams use larger [...]
The Florida Panthers start many game introductions out with a custom video clip setting up the game, in some cases they create a mascot skit around the opponent and use it as the set-up.
Here is one such example from a Panther game against the Boston Bruins.
You can see hundreds of indexed videos, including a [...]