Day 53 - Barnstorming Tour

If the loveable Donald Fehr and Gary Bettman are unable to come to an agreement soon and the second full season of hockey in seven years is lost, there have been talks of a Barnstorming Tour of the All-Stars. Based on my recollection of many night scouring Wikipedia for random articles and trivia, my understanding was that this was used by sports leagues in their early days in order to start building a brand, pretty smart given that the only social media at the time included newspaper ads, singing telegrams, and people shouting on telephone poles. (And I would love to see those guys with a 140 character limit or people taking out newspaper ads to announce they had a baby).

The default barnstorming tour article makes this all the more epic. Proper barnstorming is the use of biplanes to put on an air show. I would love nothing more than to see Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby in a dog fight in southern California, with those old style aviation goggles taking up all the space on their head. And it would finally make the name the Philadelphia Flyers make so much sense. I don't really know the history of their name, but man, if the barnstorming tour does take place in this capacity (rather than the logical visiting of  major league rinks), what a marketing campaign. Oh and the puns, so many puns. Imagine Aaron Asham getting called for high sticking. I must develop this further and get it over the headquarters of the players immediately.