Columbus Blue Jackets (Official Thread)

[jimotis4heisman]

hopefully someone here can help me on this, but i'm somewhat new to being a jackets fan (i casually followed them for a few years until I moved up to Ohio St this year and became a bigger fan) but can someone explain to me what exactly carry the flag stands for and how it got started? Thanks!

well ya see (and I'm mostly a Red Wings fan and only a part time CBJ fan ), they started out as neon bee-shaped bugs. This didn't make a ton of sense to anyone really but they stuck with it for nearly 6 full years.

Then when the NHL went to Reebok to do their jersey designs, the CBJ went from neon-bugs to a Civil-War type scheme which works a little better and kinda is the opposite of the Blackhawks and/or the Red Wings. so the carry the flag thing is a play on the Civil War scheme they are currently employing....

its a civil war theme thus the cannon. president linocln had originally requested ohio raise ten regiments at the outbreak of the civil war, they raised 23 at that time of volunteer infantry. toss in the likes of sherman, grant, sheridan, custer, etc. columbus was also home to camp chase (broad-westgate-sullivant-hague were the boundaries) this was used as a camp and prison camp it replaced camp jackson. four us presidents spent time at camp chase (johnson, hayes, garfield, mckinley) you also had camp thomas in columbus which was located up by dodridge st (north of campus). ohio had 320k soliders fight in the civil war third most of all states. columbus was also a large manufacturer of the actual blue jackets.

if you look at stinger he was originally dressed as a civil war era union solider.

mike they got rid of the stinger idea when they first got a third jersey (the ones with black on the sleeves). so that happened before the switch to the new rbk sweaters.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Who else will be sitting on ticketmaster.com Saturday morning?

Not me.

good day to be a fan of the lady bugs...

They have stretches where they play like the LB's of old, but I haven't called them that more than once or twice this season.

toss in the likes of sherman, grant, sheridan, custer, etc.

I may have mentioned it previously, but there is a statue of Custer in his birthplace of New Rumley, OH that my wife's grandfather may have altered (with a strategically placed sausage) prior to it's unveiling.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

Nice discussion about whether it'll be on tv.

I'll be listening to Bill and George on the radio from the office tonight, so stick it up your asses.

and your boss calls himself a hockey fan?


typical leafs fan.

use a mobile directv/dishnetwork set up in the parking lot to the office tvs. unless of course you have the rogue canadian sat system with every hockey game...

 

[brodybuck21]

congrats Jackets..........carry the flag bitches!



what a move by Hitch to throw Tyutin in there for the shootout

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

and your boss calls himself a hockey fan?

I'm at a different office on Wednesday's. The kind of office (unlike my M, T, R, F office) where I actually have deadlines and work to do. Inconsiderate bastards.

I got to listen to most of it on the radio and made it home in time to see the last 5 shooters in the SO.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

this article has been brought up three times to me today.
TheStar.com | Sports | Will post-season competition sway Nash to stay in Ohio?


still not worried.

 

[ScriptOhio]

congrats Jackets..........carry the flag bitches!

I have always thought that the "Carry The Flag" was the dumbest promotion that they have ever come up with::(

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcuCSklYP2s"]YouTube - Columbus Blue Jackets Carry The Flag Intro 2008[/ame]

 

[brodybuck21]

I have always thought that the "Carry The Flag" was the dumbest promotion that they have ever come up with::(

YouTube - Columbus Blue Jackets Carry The Flag Intro 2008

to each their own. I kinda like it...either way...

fuck michigan

 

[Mike80]

this article has been brought up three times to me today.
TheStar.com | Sports | Will post-season competition sway Nash to stay in Ohio?


still not worried.

I was getting ready to post that.

Toronto and their media are wishing out loud again.

 

[generaladm]

What they fail to mention is that even if the Leafs manage to steal Nash from us, they still wouldn't be a legit cup contender. Toronto seems to be completely unable to develop talent thru it's own system. Were it not for the Doug Gilmour trade, Toronto would have been irrelevant since 68. If Nash wants to play for a competitive team, he'll have to put his childhood allegiances aside.

 

[Mike80]

And after two gift power plays which they scored on, that's it for me tonight.

St. Louis is only as good as the Refs let them be. If they get the calls and can fake out the refs, they'll go far. If they don't (and they won't) in the playoffs, they'll flame out like they always do.

Fuck St. Louis. Bow down to your master Steve Yzerman bitches

 

[TRON 2.0]

Life continues to be tough for us CBJ fans :(

Oh, the memories....

 

[buckeyemania11]

wtf, no penalty there? Umberger got elbowed in the head and it knocked his helmet off

good going refs

 

[buckeyemania11]

another cheap shot by the blues, and of course no penalty called

edit: NM, Umberger and a blue both got issued with a penalty due to the reaction, 4 on 4

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

And after two gift power plays which they scored on, that's it for me tonight.

St. Louis is only as good as the Refs let them be. If they get the calls and can fake out the refs, they'll go far. If they don't (and they won't) in the playoffs, they'll flame out like they always do.

Fuck St. Louis. Bow down to your master Steve Yzerman bitches

Exactly. The call on Boll was legit, but the one on Russ was shit and the 2nd minor to Boll was weak. Pair that with the no-call on the elbow to Umberger and color me unamused.

How the fuck St. Louis gets these calls is beyond me.

Fuck TJ Oshie. Fuck Winchester. Double fuck David Perrin. Triple fuck David Backes.