Blues Deceive Taco-Loving Fans

this is almost as bad as that fake gimmick media blitz with the fake fan passing out tacos last year in st. louis. for christ sake if your job is to make tacos then make some goddamn tacos or go work some where else. tacobell is stupid. what if per se they actually had a real lunch rush? what then out of fear of actually having to earn your keep you have to work hard? god forbid. hell, after my fifth mission of the day last year on a cold november night where it wouldn’t stop raining, i thought to myself, i just won’t show up to work tommorrow i’ll call in sick. and then i remembered, i’d still be in iraq. poor taco makers. it must be so hard to be able to just walk out of a job with things are going bad.

There’s even more downside than you listed. You have to go to the DrinkScotch Center to get your free taco so unless you work downtown, you’re probably screwed.

Also, it doesn’t say anywhere that this is a Taco Bell promotion so the Blues are probably making these tacos themselves. OK, the fact that these aren’t Taco Bell tacos probably doesn’t count as a downside, but the quality of the tacos the Blues will be putting out there for free remains to be seen too.

Yeah, I just got the impact. We’ll be editing this shortly. Crock. Of. Shit.

What hasn’t been mentioned is Dave Checketts and Company didn’t have to do anything at all. They could have all just said “Hey, that’s a cute chant” and left it at that, but being an owner that gives a darn about something other than the bottom line.

Yes I will never get to take advantage of it, because i am 2 hours away but it is a great gesture none the less. As far as who is providing the tacos, just my guess is they will be made by food services as Scotttrade since it is owned in house. I maybe wrong but it is just my guess.

I just feel just because it isn’t exactly what you wanted, there isn’t a reason to complain. I am just happy to have the owner we do. If the Lauries were still in charge I couldn’t imagine what a mess we would have now

Doc,
I see where you’re coming from. Granted, we are bitching about a gesture from the ownership that wouldn’t have been extended under the old ownership. And don’t get me wrong, we’re on board with Checketts and Co. We’ve given them a lot of praise when they deserve it. But this move is second-rate at best. I would much more prefer them doing nothing at all than this promotion. And I’ll admit, the headline and some of the wording was influenced by my misunderstanding the promotion.

But honestly, how many people with tickets work downtown or will be able to drive down there? How campy is it going to look when just a trickle of fans possibly come down for their tacos? Part of what I wrote in the post talked about how the old promotion reached out to non-diehard fans and put the Blues into everyday conversation. This only reaches out to the diehards. Trust me, the diehards are happy, and hungry—for a good rest of the season.

To grow the fan base and keep the team viable and successful in St. Louis, they need to be more in the general public eye and this doesn’t do it.

I’d be really interested to learn just how many people take advantage of this the next time the Blues score five. I can see the turnout being so low that this gets scraped pretty quick.

Let’s see them actually score five goals once before we start worrying about the impact. Taco Bell workers might have had little to fear.