Pick Em: Home Game Opening Videos

Outstanding post, SG, and thanks!

I actually am partial to the video they showed in pre-season games last year of Caps fans Rocking the Red while on their vacations. It was fun to see all the fun places Caps jerseys can go.

Great FanPost. Rec’d.

Thanks guys.

Of the videos above, I liked the Foo Fighter one best. Had a great combination of “energy” music and great highlights. Every time that song comes on the radio, i hear Steve Kolbe’s voice kick in with the call of the Mike Green OT winner.

yeah the emo makeup in this years intro pretty much ended it (although i did like the donald working “security” for the band)

the foo fighters got my vote

Considering I still get goosebumps and want to start bodychecking people whenever I hear The Pretender, it goes to the Foo Fighters.

…Although the Mission: Impossible video was cook, with Coach Wilson driving the big limo through DC, Sylvain Cote handing off the briefcase to the person in back (Oates, Kolzig, Halpern or Klee, depending on the night). The only thing I did’t like about the M:I video was they changed the text on the “Your Misson”. It initially had the opponents logo blinking with the word “Destroy” underneath it. They changed it to “Defeat”.

Destroy has so much more panache`.

The playoff addition to it was awesome too, with the initial production of the brief case being handed off to a helicopter, and then the guy pulls of the mask (very much an M:I thing) and it’s Ted. :)

Also left out was the “Minority Report” style video with Cassidy moving the items around on the glass, and the players stepping from the rink glass to the the ice.

One that I really didn’t like was the “video game”. I still remember one night when the “Select Team” came up for the lady to pick and someone behind me yelled “Pick Detroit!”, and another one said “No, Colorado!” An amusing moment, but not a great video. Of course, they brought the same lady back for the 30th anniversary, and that video became harder and harder to watch as the fire sale went on….

Sombrero, great post. My only quibble is I distinctly remember a version of the Foos video being used Opening Night 2007. I don’t know why they then switched to the bad video, but they made the right choice by switching back to the Foos.

I think a mix of the Rock the Red, which seemed to focus more on the players’ personalities and the fan interactions, with the Foo Fighters, which focused more on the actual playing, would be a good video. I especially like the cut to the announcer during the Green goal – the change re-focused my attention. I’m also a fan of the ending with everyone surrounding the goalie – that would be a good way to end any video done this year (although I could see a problem as to which goalie to pick since they’ll likely be splitting games).

That being said, I had to vote for the ‘06-’07 out of habit of voting for anything associated with Rob Zombie.

Side note: if they did another Rock the Red, wouldn’t Semin have to replace Green as the drummer?

Folks have already listed why it’s a success.

I guess second place goes to last season’s video. Personally, I’m not a big fan of it at all. it seems so excessively fake – perhaps because I watched the behind the scenes videos etc, but something is just “off” about it… and I think I can pin it down to one part.

0:15.. the car starts rolling in and who are we greeted by? 0:19.. None other than an emotionless Theodore, Laich & Backstrom, likely regretting showing up for this video.

This moment ruins the entire video for me. Sorry.

Another way to look at it: I was tired of the 08-09 video after about 3 games. I still love watching the Foo.

Where do I vote for “Ice Breakers, Goal Shakers”?

the playoff videos from the past years have also been pretty good

I voted foo fighters, but I also (mostly) liked last year’s.

Foo Fighters by far. Had the least cheese of any of them.

Foo without a doubt….while I enjoyed the opening this year it was a little cheezy. Now if only they could have had a Foo song written for the 08-09 video then that would have been sweet!

I still get chills every time I hear “The Pretender.” That video was freaking awesome. As far as the Rock the Red goes, I like the song, but the video itself is kinda meh. The rockstar thing just didn’t pump me up… I guess it wasn’t dramatic enough. And yeah, the makeup sucked.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a poll with 70+ votes and one option still vote-less. Awesome.

For what its worth, I actually really liked the opening they made for the playoffs. The song really got me fired up and the clips with the explosions and whatnot were great. Call me cheesy, but they worked.

Foo for its good balance of introduction and footage. Not my favorite song, but not bad. Energetic. Doesn’t feel quite as staged.

At first I thought the concept of the rock video was pretty cool, but I gotta admit, every time I saw it the video just seemed “cheesier” than it did the time before.

I really liked this past year’s song selections, not just “Hell Yeah” for the opening montage, but also “Running Wild” and (especially) “Devour” as the 2nd and 3rd periods started….but the parts of the entire concept just started to grow tiresome to me as the season wore on.

Frankly, I’d love it if they developed 2 or 3 themes at a time and kind of shuffled them around, so you wouldn’t get the same videos and songs every single game.

RE: “Rock the Red” in general, I was fully on board when the campaign was introduced prior to the ‘08 playoffs, and didn’t even have a problem with carrying it over into the 08-09 season, but I think it’s time to retire “rock the red” and start a new campaign. For me, “rock the red” will ALWAYS remind me of the crazy end-of-the-season run the team had in the spring of ’08. (For Orioles fans, kinda like “Why Not” and the 1989 season). These are really good memories, even if they did come up short against the Flyers that year. Time to move on.

anyone else getting goosebumps watching these?

(can the season start… like now?)

My 5 year old definitely prefers the Foos.