Blues Hold Diversity Event During Film Session
ST. LOUIS, MO — After being blasted by fans around the league for moving their “Hockey Is For Everyone” event to an away game, the St. Louis Blues are trying a different approach. In an effort to bring the event to Enterprise Stadium, without rescheduling any of their other planned events, the Blues organization has decided to hold the diversity event during a team film session next Tuesday morning.
Team president and CEO, Chris Zimmerman had this to say on the rescheduling:
“Whoops! That event totally slipped our minds. We were so focused on the other events we have coming up, Vets 4 Blues, Pet Game Day (No Birds), Military Appreciation Day, The Annual St. Paddies Throw-down, Shirts vs Skins Charity Hockey Game for the St. Louis Skin Cancer Research Center, and of course the annual Catatonic Schizophrenia Awareness parade. But, I promise, to all our hockey fans coming from all different kinds of backgrounds, I’m going to make it up to you because this year’s ‘Hockey Is For Everyone’ event will be our biggest yet. It’s gonna be bigger than Pet Game Day, once again, please don’t bring birds…
I’ve rented a cotton candy and a popcorn machine to be place in film room. I’ve also hired a clown, a magician, and a face painter. The clown will be serving snow cones and making balloon animals. The magician is going to make all the allegations of the St Louis Blues being an intolerant, bigoted organization disappear! Haha! I wish! And the face painter will paint whatever little tribal designs that they like in your country on your face. I know my son used to love to have his face painted like Darth Maul… You won’t want to miss this event! But, remember only the first 50 people to show up get in. The fire marshal says we can’t fit more than that in our film room, so take it up with him. See you all there!”
The event has not yet been publicized on the team’s website. So far, the only documentation of this event has been crudely drawn Crayola posters that the organization has put up a block away from the stadium. When criticized over the organization’s lack of promotional effort, Zimmerman said:
“Oh are you making fun of our posters now? Well those were made in conjunction with our partnership with the special needs children at our local Kirkwood School District. So yeah, I bet you feel like a dick now, huh?”
We reached out to the Kirkwood special needs program and they confirmed that they were not involved in the creation of the “Hockey is For Everyone” event posters.
