An ECHL Team Will Be Playing On Yellow Ice, Zamboni Driver Must Be Pissed
News Press - You’ve seen blue, red, purple and gray football fields. There are basketball courts with beaches and other scenes painted on them. Now, get ready for yellow ice, courtesy of the Florida Everblades.
To honor Hertz buying the naming rights of their arena, Everblades officials added a yellow coat of paint between two sealer coats for the ECHL team’s home opening games against the Norfolk Admirals to give the ice a yellow tint.
Holy shit. This right here has the real opportunity of being the most hideous looking hockey game in the history of the sport. Dating back to the day that Adam played Eve in a game of 1v1, there may never be a hockey game that looks even close to as horrid as the home opener for the Florida Everblades this year. And it goes well beyond the yellow ice. I mean the yellow ice is clearly a violation right off the bat. But to complement the piss yellow ice, the Everblades wear green sweaters at home.
Green uniforms. Yellow ice. A gross combo right away. But that’s not even the end of it. Because as some of you may recall, GEICO is a sponsor of the ECHL. And part of their deal with the ECHL is they have been awarded some premium ad spots on the nets. Which resulted in the birth of the blue goal.
Yellow ice. Blue nets. The state of Florida. This could truly only happen in a league where Paul Bissonnette was a two-time all star.
And the person I feel the worst for–besides everybody who actually has to watch this game–is the Zamboni driver. It’s this guy’s job to make sure that ice is always looking as pristine as possible. Sharp lines, an even coat, making sure every single inch of that ice is perfect. And all of a sudden the corporate fat cats from Hertz come down and tell him he needs to paint his ice yellow. It’s a goddamn shame is what it is. Even if you cut that ice perfectly, it’s still going to look like shit. It would be like some company coming down to sponsor Van Gogh’s paintings and forcing him to take a big, giant shit right across Starry Night as an advertisement gimmick. Shame shame shame.