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Air Canada threatens to pull NHL sponsorship (Can't Handle Real Hockey)
AP ^
| 10 March 2011
| DAVID KOENIG
Posted on 03/10/2011 9:39:37 PM PST by buccaneer81
Air Canada threatens to pull NHL sponsorship
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer
DALLAS (AP) -- In an unusually public faceoff between a pro sports league and one of its major sponsors, Air Canada has threatened to pull support for the National Hockey League, saying that violent play on the ice hurts the airline's brand image.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aircanada; hockey; nhl; sponsorship
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Bye, bye, Air Canada. Don't let the door hit ya...
To: airborne; SZonian; Betis70
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posted on
03/10/2011 9:40:43 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: buccaneer81
Sounds like they are trying to get out of a high priced sponsorship.
To: buccaneer81
There’s not enough violence on the ice!
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posted on
03/10/2011 9:42:42 PM PST
by
scott7278
(lif"...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
To: headstamp 2
Could be. Anyone who thinks the NHL is violent today knows nothing of the league in past decades. I grew up in Boston in the ‘70s, if you get my drift.
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posted on
03/10/2011 9:44:17 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: buccaneer81
>>saying that violent play on the ice hurts the airline’s brand image.<<
Canadians complaining about violence in hockey! OMG!! Dogs and cats living together! Biblical demons invading us! Zool in refrigerators!
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posted on
03/10/2011 9:44:29 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
To: buccaneer81
Dunno.
To be sure hockey is bitchin’ dangerous and violent. But so is college football and every other sport.
But it can’t be any worse than what Tiger Woods went through with his wife beating him with a golf club through a vehicle.
You know golf, a passive sport.
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posted on
03/10/2011 9:46:05 PM PST
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: quantim
To be sure hockey is bitchin’ dangerous and violent.Yet ironically, it is the 'cleanest' of the big four leagues when it comes to drugs, thugs and general bad behavior among the players.
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posted on
03/10/2011 9:48:12 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: buccaneer81
Maybe the NHL needs Jason Voorhees as its spokesman.....
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posted on
03/10/2011 9:51:36 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
To: SouthTexas
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posted on
03/10/2011 10:03:23 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Now hiring Tag Line writers. Full time low pay)
To: quantim
even no-check beer league hockey is dangerous.
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posted on
03/10/2011 10:17:06 PM PST
by
rahbert
To: buccaneer81
Read this story earlier and while it may be ‘real’ hockey; seems the level of violence has upped the ante on those injured. . .big time. Not sure that makes this game ‘more real’ or something else.
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posted on
03/10/2011 10:32:11 PM PST
by
cricket
(Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)
To: buccaneer81
‘68-’72 Bruins?.......only the ‘baddest’, and in all ways, NHL team EVER!!!!! Bobby Orr?....only the greatest individual player EVER!!!!
To: cricket
seems the level of violence has upped the ante on those injured. . .big time. Not sure that makes this game ‘more real’ or something else.Not even close to what it was from the '50s through the '80s.
To: bobby.223
The Bruins were still the toughest team in the league throughout the rest of the ‘70s. The battles with Montreal and Philadelphia were epic.
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
03/10/2011 11:47:25 PM PST
by
Bronzewound
(When radicals begin to follow rules, don't they become conformists?)
To: headstamp 2
I agree with you. Was hockey any less violent when Air Canada started its sponsorship of the NHL? LOL.
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posted on
03/11/2011 4:25:38 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
To: tubebender; buccaneer81
Don’t think this will increase their reservations.
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posted on
03/11/2011 7:24:18 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Tea time!)
To: SouthTexas
Probably won’t hurt them that much. They have 90% of the Canadian market, probably 95% of their domestic routes.
To: Hat-Trick; SZonian; retrokitten; hollywood; Alberta's Child; 6323cd; Betis70; ColoCdn; k2afe; ...
Hockey Ping!
(let me know if you want on or off the ping list)
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posted on
03/11/2011 4:31:17 PM PST
by
airborne
(Powerful public unions and fiscal calamity. (Notice how those go hand in hand?))
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