A Detroit Pistons blog
Ladies and Gentlemen, the 2006-07 Detroit Pistons: Bandwagon seats now available.
Congrats to Alan, whose slogan articulated both the frustration of an early slump as well as the optimism for yet another a strong finish. He will receive his prize of the DVD box set chronicling the 1988-89 Bad Boys’ march to the NBA title shortly. And thank you to everyone who submitted an entry.
We asked for a new slogan for the 2006-07 season, and you guys really brought the bacon. Somehow, some way, we whittled down the choices to five slogans — it was difficult and arbitrary and if you asked us to do it again tomorrow we might come up with five different choices, but this is where we’re at now.
Unfortunately, the really hard part up to you: vote for your favorite to determine the overall winner. Voting will close at this time tomorrow.
Our photo contest for the Bad Boys DVD giveaway has come to a close. As we said before, we have two winners for you. First, by random draw, DBB reader kramer wins with the picture on the right of his computer screen reading at work (yeah, it was that easy — we told you you should have entered…).
Kramer notes: “You can even see my hard hat which is actually used, not just a promotional tool like the Pistons…”
The second prize was awarded based on creativity, a vague criteria which made it damn near impossible to choose from several worthy entries. We loved the road-side signs, both real (on Telegraph) and imagined (on I-75), but in the end we really appreciated DBB reader Brandon making the best use of a, well, captive audience.
Brandon writes: here’s a “picture of the restroom in a State of Michigan facility in Lansing, with DBB signs at face level in front of the urinals. This restroom is shared between two different departments and receives a lot of traffic. I will leave these signs up.”
You leave those up, Brandon, and you also wait by your mailbox, because you just earned a DVD box set.
Before we get to the new contest… you know we’re still doing that Photo Contest, right? The one where it’s incredibly easy to win a box set of the 88-89 Pistons — the original Bad Boys! — winning the NBA title? Well, the deadline is noon tomorrow
All it has to include is you reading Detroit Bad Boys in a public place, or some kind of sign that says detroitbadboys.com — we’ll choose one winner at random and we’ll choose another winner based on creativity. Email it to tips@detroitbadboys.com by noon tomorrow and you’re good to go!
OK, as for the new contest… we’re looking for a new slogan for the season. A funny one, preferably. Such as:
The 2006-07 Pistons: This time, cornrows free, or…
The 2006-07 Pistons: Did you know know we won the title in 2004?, or…
The 2006-07 Pistons: Who knew our own pick would be better than Orlando’s?, or…
The 2006-07 Pistons: Kinda like ‘05-06, except without the whole winning thing.
We know you can do better. Picking winners is tough, so we’ll choose our top five favorites and put it up for you guys to vote. Both Ian and I will be out of town this weekend, so entries are due by noon Monday. You have all weekend, so bring your funny on this one. And if you win, you’ll get your own box set, just like DBB readers Ron, Pat, Ken, Fool…
This submission to the Haiku contest didn’t win, but it certainly caught my attention:
Bad Boys where are you?
I remember entire crew.
Oh, Rick’s at Borders.
That’s right! Rick Mahorn will be at the Borders Books and Music in Novi [map and directions] tonight at 6pm. Hope to see you there!
You all just don’t quit! There were so many quality entries to our Motor City Madness haiku contest, we’ve decided to let indecisiveness reign by annointing two winners. And while it wasn’t easy whittling the list down to two, we feel the winners express a perfect mix of homicidal and traditional in their approaches to haiku.
First up is Fool, with the following snacktacular post about Baby Max:
Time for bench to rise
Jason Maxiell eats babies
Put the man in Flip
And next is Ken, who took time out from…whatever he is doing in Poland (model scouting) to submit the following ode to Tayshaun:
Like kite without String
[A]Rise and lead, co-captain;
T.P., time to shine!
Again, big thanks to all those who participated. My mind will forever associate Dale Davis with the five syllables “Sizzle, crackle, pop.”
Remember, there is still an ongoing photo contest for two more sets of DVDs. Take a picture of yourself reading DBB at home or in the office and send it in. Or snap a shot of you or a friend holding a sign that says Detroit Bad Boys — that’ll work too. Or film yourself making out with your inflatable Ben…(awkward) Or it could be your dog in a Pistons jersey barking to the tune of “Three-peat Beat” (with a sign that says Detroit Bad Boys)…
Whatever the hell you have to do to get those three words inside the viewfinder of your effing digital camera — do it, and then email it to Matt and I! For your efforts, you’ll have the chance to receive 11 DVDs worth of Skinny Joe Dumars and Bill Laimbeer’s pasty white legs.
And, seriously, who doesn’t want that?
For our next Motor City Madness DVD giveaway, we’re asking you to come up with a haiku based upon the the Boys in Blue (see the rules of haiku, here).
Stay with me here…
A couple months ago, before the start of the NBA season, Matt had the amazingly original idea of doing an NBA preview all in haiku. I was giddy at the prospects of us writing such a post. But, as tends to happen when your major in college was “beer” (and both Matt and I can be counted as alumni of this illustrious program), the idea died on the vine.
Well, lo an behold, better bloggers than us had experienced a similar epiphany, and now haiku is everywhere. And if executed properly, it can be effing hilarious.
The following examples from MGoBlog (one of our favorite UofM blogs) were penned in honor of Michigan football’s David Harris (LB) and Lamarr Woodley (DE) — who in five short days will do their part in destroying the Ohio State football program on their own soiled Columbus turf, sending throngs of tearful, half-witted Buckeye faithful home questioning the power of their sweater-vested golden calf (Jim Tressel — he’s the one on the left, btw).
Ummm, sorry…I might be a little distracted this week. Anywhoo, back to those examples:
(on Harris)
On one of these days
You are going to kill someone
I’m okay with that
(on Woodley)
If you were to sack
A QB with eye lasers
Only mild surprise here
It is that simple, folks. Come up with an original Japanese poem about Flip or Nazr…Chauncey or Rip…Laimbeer or Mahorn…Sheed or David Stern; throw your entry up in the comments (remember, 5-7-5); and we’ll choose a winner by noon (EST) tomorrow.
Bonus points if you make me laugh or cry.
Senior Day haiku [MGoBlog]
Don’t just take our word for it [MZone]
Damn, guys — you think you could have made our first Bad Boys DVD giveaway any more difficult?
We hated having to select a single winner, but Matt and I have finally come to a decision after several rounds of roshambo and endurance challenge involving a keg of Natural Light and a copy of Ron Artest’s album My World.
All entries were worthy of victory. And were there only a couple,
So, without further ado, allow me to reintroduce our photo, this time with Pat Hunt’s winning photo caption. And when reading, try to keep your beverage of choice from coming out your nose.
Ben: Wow. Your elbow is really soft.
Crazy Ron: Coconut butter.
What?
I use coconut butter. Without it I’d be as ashy as Don King.
Does Don King have dry skin?
Are you kidding me? Have you seen the man’s hai- I’m sorry, I didn’t mean anything by it.
Yeah. Cool. Whatever. That coconut butter does smell nice. Wanna take a shower?
Damn, that’s funny…
But, Pat’s “Skeets-inspired” entry was not the only hilarious post, so a few people will be receiving emails from Matt or me requesting a mailing address for your copy of Dime magazine.
Lastly, big props to Alan for providing me with a new favorite nickname for Ben Wallace: Benedict. As a card carrying Ben-hater (and a History major, to boot), I’m really wishing I would have come up with that on my own. Cheers, Alan.
(Another DVD giveaway will be announced soon, so please check back with us for that announcement.)
Roshambo definition [Urban Dictionary]
Romance on the Hardwood [The Basketball Jones]
The first couple of winners in our Bad Boys 1988-89 NBA Championship DVD box set giveaway will be announced before the time you leave work today. If you missed out but still want one, you can a) try to win one of our next contests, b) order the box set online and wait for it to be shipped on November 14, or c) make plans to pick it up in the store the day it is released.
If you’re like me, you try to do most of your shopping online, and even if you’re excited about picking up this box set, your need to actually go to the store the day it’s released may not be all that overwhelming. That’s understandable, I suppose, at least considering you’ve waited almost two decades since you watched the 1989 playoffs the first time around. But consider this:
Rick Mahorn, one of the original Bad Boys’ prime instigators, will be promoting the release of the box set by signing copies at Borders Books and Music in Novi this coming Tuesday, Nov. 14. Fortunately, Novi is actually closer to my side of town than most of these types of things, so I hope to make it out there.
On a sidenote, some of you may be asking where my integrity went. How come I’m pitching this DVD thing so hard, and why am I touting Mahorn’s signing so much? Can editorial decisions on DBB be swayed so easily by a box of free swag? Honestly, it can’t… most of the time. But I get authentically excited and overly nostalgic about any and all things to do with the Bad Boys era Pistons (as well as the A-Team, but that’s another matter), and I get the feeling a lot of you guys are, too.
[EDIT: Mahorn is signing autographs at 6pm at Borders — the time was somehow left out of my original post…]
So Ben Wallace and Ron Artest finally buried the hatchet, with a little help from Jesse Jackson. From the Chicago Tribune:
“They embraced each other,” Jackson said of the surreal scene in the Kings’ locker room after the game in which the initial combatants in what became the worst brawl in U.S. sports history hugged and followed Jackson into the players’ shower area.
Ummm… okay…
Anywhoo, as we announced yesterday, we’re giving away several of these DVD box sets of the 1988-89 Bad Boys title run. While we await the winners of the ongoing photo contest,
Give us your best in the comments. And at this time tomorrow, we’ll announce the winner and send him/her this awesome prize. A couple of lucky (?) runners-up will receive a copy of this month’s Dime Magazine (I know, it’s not a set of DVDs, but we need to give the rest of these mags out before they’re officially obsolete…).
Look, we’ve made it really easy for you with this picture. I mean, when combined with the whole “Jesse leading them into the shower” image, your mind should be in just the right demented state to take home the prize. So have at it!
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