"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.