Happy Birthday To Us.

by gallagher on Nov 6, 2009 4:04 PM CST

Four years ago today we printed our first-ever issue of the gamd day paper. It was for a game against Detroit and the banner headline on the front said, "Satan Has A Hockey Team!" It was 24 pages and featured the first (and only) appearance of what was supposed to be an every-issue column under the heading of "The Rink Rat's Rant"; a column about the prospects that was not written by our own GT Prospect Department, but rather by someone else; a couple stories about the NHL's new rules and about the passing of Bob Broeg by Chris Gift (though not under the now firmly-established The Five Hole"); and some truly horrendous formatting.

We also learned an important lesson about headlines: Jokes about Satan make people think you're peddling religious materials.

Many thanks to everyone who bought that first issue and still stuck with us after that, and many thanks to everyone who works so hard on our little paper and it's sister, this smart-mouth site. Four years and now into our fifth season of bitching about Blues hockey, happy birthday to you all.

As a way to give back a little bit to our loyal readers, we have a birthday present for all of you. Thanks to the donation of our own DanGNR we have two tickets for Tuesday's game against Vancouver. They are upstairs seats, but you beggars know not to be choosers, right?

Birthday Contest:

Want to win the two tickets to the game? Email your most creative story about either:

Why the Blues are struggling right now
What the Blues can do to break out of their slump

And the most creative and/or humorous story out of the bunch gets published here on the ssite, possibly in Tuesday's issue of Game Time and you win the two seats. Notice that the emphasis is on creative and/or humorous, so if you send in simply "Brewer sucks and Andy Murray should be fired" you won't win. If, however, you come up with something unique and print-worthy, they shall be yours.

Deadline is going to have to be Sunday night at 5 p.m. Central so do not dilly-dally. Send your submissions to gallagher@stlouisgametime.com and we'll judge them. The format can be whatever works best for your story: Word documents, pictures and text, a video you shot, whatever. Any questions? Leave 'em in the comments.

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to you all.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously you guys deserve so much praise and recognition! This site literally changed my life and I look forward to visiting this site obsessively throughout the day.

Also, FUCK and YES to the contest. My shit’s all over this.

"It’s a brand new day
And the sun is high
All the birds are singing
That you’re gonna die" ~ Dr. Horrible

by Carnie on Nov 6, 2009 6:38 PM CST reply actions

Happy Birthday Guys!!!

by Bleedbluecp2 on Nov 6, 2009 7:11 PM CST via mobile reply actions

Happy Birthday Guys!!!

I check this site every day and try to contribute whatever crap I think might be intersting.

I already have tickets, I am not particularly creative, and I have rarely been accused of humor. Otherwise I would be all over those tickts.

All in all you guys are great and keep up the great good work. I need to laugh occasionally in these times of misery

GO BLUES
GO GAMETIME

by Bleedbluecp2 on Nov 6, 2009 7:15 PM CST via mobile reply actions

i know the beloved

game time log wasnt the first, adn we had another face for a while, but did we have any logo other than a banner with a font for the first issue?

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Nov 6, 2009 7:23 PM CST reply actions

i couldn't find issue #1

but i was able to dig up the 2nd issue, i miss that logo….kinda reminds me of a chelios pic

by brado on Nov 6, 2009 7:53 PM CST reply actions

i have one older one

in my car. i think i did a few things in it and its why i kept it. the banner is slightly updated and that game time guy ison it, i just didnt realize that game time guy went all the way back tot he begining

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Nov 6, 2009 8:36 PM CST up reply actions

there's only 1 issue older than this one.

I don’t think we got hooked up and started running your trivia until a couple games later, for some reason.

SWYD

by gallagher on Nov 6, 2009 11:53 PM CST up reply actions

D'OH

“older” as in not very new, its one of the unfortunately too frequentl battle for lasts issues

but yea it isnt issue one.

the banner i think has some hockey players on it instead of just a black band. oh well.

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Nov 7, 2009 6:06 PM CST up reply actions

Check out the Janssen Line on the lower right

Interesting….

North Co! North Co! North Co!

by Answer Man on Nov 6, 2009 7:57 PM CST reply actions

I like the headlines

Blackhawks Suck!!!

Happy berfday. I found out about SLGT I think from one of the Blues forums last summer. How I missed the humor and fun for 2 year I don’t know. It was a diamond in the rough as the coaches say.

Some days its just not worth chewing through the restraints

by spectr17 on Nov 6, 2009 9:48 PM CST reply actions

I gotz me a birthday cake

and I throw it on the Grrrrooouuunnnnddddd…….

I hope I get a vote in said contest since I made the donation….
actually I don’t care, I know we have enough readers with the required criteria to make it fucking hilarious… looking forward to seeing the submissions…
DanGNR

PS happy birthday GT, glad you didn’t quit (but can’t believe you didn’t. After-all, it kicked Jeffio’s ass. (or was it Bethio that kicked Jeffio’s ass?)

You can't call me a fair weather Blues fan.

by DanGNR on Nov 6, 2009 10:45 PM CST reply actions

Happy Birthday guys...

for some reason I had yet to find out about your great publication until about 3 years ago…why the hell did I? I have no idea….dammit. Happy Birthday…and more to come…Ill be buying them every game I go to.

by bss212s on Nov 7, 2009 1:13 AM CST reply actions