Saturday, August 28, 2010

The Vote for Rory Campaign

This one goes back 3 years, but also has yet to appear on the blog for unknown reasons. As part of the NHL All-Star Game, every year, fans have the ability to vote on the All-Star starters. Those players, then, usually some of the game's best, are guaranteed to make the All-Star Team, but any player is able to receive votes! A group of fans decided it would be funny to see defenseman Rory Fitzpatrick, a career journeyman and fringe NHLer, in the 2007 game, and started a voting campaign. Unfortunately (or fortunately...), their voting fell a little short, but it did produce some splendid "campaign ads":





And my personal favourites, the attack ads:





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