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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > NHL plan to put ads on jerseys "Coming and happening"
 
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darkwolf220
May 14, 2009

SOON :stare:

 If they do not go overboard, I would not mind it much. For selfish reasons, it might actually be pretty cool. I collect hockey cards, if I got a patch card that was a piece of the golden arches, it would be pretty neat.

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darkwolf220
May 14, 2009

SOON :stare:

runoverbobby posted:

Ads were introduced to the ice and jerseys in European hockey leagues because for a long time there were no media timeouts during periods.

The Swedish and Finnish leagues re-introduced the "POWERBREAK!" (television timeout) in 2009/10. But there is only one POWERBREAK! per period, unless this has changed recently as I haven't watched any Swedish hockey on television for a year or so.

First of all the NHL should refer to "TV Timeouts" as "POWERBREAKS!" instead because "POWERBREAK" is fun to say. Secondly, if the NHL introduces advertisements to their jerseys, but still takes three POWERBREAKS per period instead of one, that would be more shameful than the European commercial policy IMO.

Do you honestly think that the NHL is just going to give money back? The NHL has already found out that we are very tolerant of TV time outs, no one is complaining to them about them. So why change it if you can do it and make more money? It is just like it business. Times get bad, rates and benefits get cut. People who will not tolerate that leave. Remaining people deal with it. When times get good again, most companies are not going to reinstate all those benefits because hey, the people that are here were OK working without them, so why change? Same idea.

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