Don’t ask how I found this, but the Blues were apparently featured on FOX’s Prison Break last night. Gail Pennington of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the deal:
My colleague Brian Nehring, a sharp-eyed “Prison Break” fan, spotted something unusual on this week’s episode: the names of St. Louis Blues players in the address book of Gretchen’s (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe) phone. What was up? Studying the opening credits offered an answer. The episode was written by Christian Trokey, who grew up in St. Charles and got away with slipping in a shout-out to a hometown team.
One of the commenter points out that the last names used were “Stastny, Oshie, Tkachuk, Johnson, Backes and Brewer.”
Cool. We have no opinion what-so-ever on Prison Break (except for the one in the headline, we guess) but it’s cool that hockey fans are paying tribute to their sport.
Posted by Gustafsson on December 7, 2008 at 8:20 am
This isn’t the first time. In 2006, the same ploy was used with the names:
* Adia Weight
* Adrianna Kopitar
* Agatha Ovechkin
* Aidan Kotalik
* Amy Crosby
* Andrea Staios
As seen here:
http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2006/11/01/the-nhl-on-foxs-prison-break/