"The Dog Days of Summer" -- Mercury style

BOB STARKEY: One of the things I didn't get a chance to blog about from last night was the promotion that the Mercury built into their game.  It was called "The Dog Days of Summer."  The had a lot of things going including some canine mascots performing.  There were several contests for the fans to participate in including guessing famous TV/Movie dogs and guessing facts about the dogs of some of the players.  The night cultivated with the animal shelter in Phoenix bring about a dozen dogs onto the court, one at a time and talking a little bit about them to the fans.  They set up a both in the corridor  and gave fans a chance to adopt.  As someone who has owned to animal shelter dogs I thought the promotion was not only fun but important.  In fact, I plan on going back to LSU to talk to our promotions department about doing something similar.

Posted by Bob Starkey