View Full Version : Does the Burn PR Department Need the Axe?
Texan
31 Jul 2002, 01:37 PM
If not for reading this forum and listening to Inside Soccer, I wouldn't have known that tickets for tonight's game were only $6 for the general admission side. Surely the Burn should have made sure the DMN mentioned it in their pre-game articles, but nary a word.
Rocket
31 Jul 2002, 03:33 PM
Originally posted by Texan
If not for reading this forum and listening to Inside Soccer, I wouldn't have known that tickets for tonight's game were only $6 for the general admission side. Surely the Burn should have made sure the DMN mentioned it in their pre-game articles, but nary a word.
The discount's not mentioned in the main article, but it is mentioned in the Burn-Wizards preview section in today's newspaper:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/soccer/stories/073102dnspoburndate.77cdc.html
I think the Burn PR Dept does a decent job, all in all. For instance, they're starting to make inroads on local sports radio, both on Fox 1190 and on the Ticket.
Just today on the Ticket, Norm Hitzges, Bob Sturm, and Dan McDowall chatted briefly together about tonight's Burn game vs. the Wiz, and Norm mentioned how he'd seen the previous KC matchup this year at the Cotton Bowl.
The Ticket had organized an outing to that game, getting a block of seats together so that interested "Ticketheads" could sit with Norm and a few other Ticket personalities to watch in the game at the Cotton Bowl.
Chamo
31 Jul 2002, 05:31 PM
Originally posted by Texan
If not for reading this forum and listening to Inside Soccer, I wouldn't have known that tickets for tonight's game were only $6 for the general admission side. Surely the Burn should have made sure the DMN mentioned it in their pre-game articles, but nary a word.
You do have a valid argument. It does seem that for some of the non-marquee games the marketing department goes into a deep sleep.
La locura rojinegra.
Texan
31 Jul 2002, 07:13 PM
My bad. I completely missed that. The Burn PR Dept. get to keep their jobs. ;)
ZenCarver
14 Feb 2006, 04:02 PM
What's a "Burn"?
Jonno
14 Feb 2006, 04:07 PM
What's a "Burn"?
Stop it. You are a very bad man.
ZenCarver
14 Feb 2006, 04:08 PM
Stop it. You are a very bad man.I know. But sometimes I get bored and dig up threads from 2002 to amuse myself. And sometimes they need to be responded to.
txaggie93
14 Feb 2006, 04:14 PM
It's Forum Throwback Day! Cause, you know, there isn't anything else going on today.
ZenCarver
14 Feb 2006, 04:25 PM
It's Forum Throwback Day! Cause, you know, there isn't anything else going on today.Damn straight.
Rocket
20 Feb 2006, 06:14 PM
Good job by the PR guys in today's Fort Worth Star Telegram:
Make A Wish
Carlos Ruiz and his Guatemala teammates took time from their training regimen Friday to pay a visit to a 16-year-old cancer patient from their homeland at Children's Hospital in Dallas.
Ruiz said he was contacted by the Make A Wish Foundation on behalf of the boy. "He wanted to meet me, and he wanted
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/13916823.htm
Well done, Carlos.
theodore
20 Feb 2006, 10:56 PM
The biggest Burn PR dept. kuddos goes for giving Team Guatemala their very own Burn winter gear to survive the elements this past weekend. Those acts of international diplomacy will pave the way for new Guatemalan Burn acquisitions.
ElJefe
21 Feb 2006, 11:36 AM
The funny thing about this thread is that it was started in 2002.
You know, back when the Burn could actually draw good crowds to the Cotton Bowl.
ZenCarver
21 Feb 2006, 11:38 AM
Before the team disbanded for a year.
Wacko4Burn
21 Feb 2006, 01:08 PM
What's the Cotton Bowl?
Mike Bolton
21 Feb 2006, 01:36 PM
What's the Cotton Bowl?
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f132/aragorn121/Cotton_bowlcopy.jpg
//yep, i already know. i'm going to hell.:D
ElJefe
21 Feb 2006, 01:49 PM
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f132/aragorn121/Cotton_bowlcopy.jpg
//yep, i already know. i'm going to hell.:D
Peter Nowak, is that you? :D
Balonpie
21 Feb 2006, 02:04 PM
Since we are in a history mood...
Today began the first day of the Siege at the Alamo. For the next 13 days Santa Ana and his band of Federales bombarded the walls and ramparts of the mission. On Sunday 03MAR1836 Santa Ana and his army advanced onto the mission killing all the defenders.
We all that took Texas history will of course know that, but those of you that were not fortunate enough to take history of Western warfare would probably not know that Zachary Taylor on that very day 11 years later in 1847 defeated Santa Ana at the battle of Buena Vista; thus, finishing the northern campaign before the landing at Veracruz and subsequent takeover Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. The rest is history... I wonder if Houston/MLS will make the name announcement today or wait 13 more days?
texgator
21 Feb 2006, 02:15 PM
1836? Now where have I heard that number before??
Balonpie
21 Feb 2006, 02:18 PM
1836? Now where have I heard that number before??
hmmmm... don't know... It's been on my sig for the past two years.
Chamo
22 Feb 2006, 11:04 AM
Where is the english version of this story? Carlos Ruiz fulfills a dream for a child in the make a wish program.
http://www.mlsnet.com/MLS/news/esp_news.jsp?ymd=20060221&content_id=52540&vkey=news_esp_mls&fext=.jsp&lang=es