Yup, I was the idiot who brought the fancy camera and then worked the check-in table - making photo-taking impossible. Met a ton of cool people and "May you win free beer" more often than I can recount, but no pictures. Sigh.
So in lieu of a photo-filled recap, allow me to simply share the universally-held highlight of the day, Tom Larrow's great fan videos.
DARK HORSES
BLUE JACKETS FANS - WHO I AM
Past that, it was a genuine pleasure to meet everyone who came out to spend a late summer afternoon talking hockey. Matt Wagner and Greg May are terrific organizing partners - and I'd be remiss if I didn't thank the Jacket Backers, the Arch City Army, the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation, FOX Sports Ohio, Buffalo Wild Wings and the Cannon Report, too. I think that things turned out quite well.
I could write more about the day, but let's leave it with a personal observation. This last ten months or so has been very trying for Blue Jackets fans. If a Blue Jacket fan has had fun as a result of the team's performance through the last NHL season, I've yet to meet him or her. As CBJ uber-fan (and DBJ contributor) Alison so aptly put it, Blue Jackets fans need to close the book on last season. How is it possible to re-emphasize that point enough?
While I was ambivalent over doing another CannonFest this time around - for a host of reasons, personal and otherwise - I ended up deciding to dive once more into the breach because Blue Jackets hockey, for better or worse, is important to me. I think I needed to re-associate Blue Jackets hockey with fun in my mind once again. I'm guessing a few of those in attendance did, too. CannonFest helped me get at least part-way there and hope those who needed the same found a little joy in the process. (And yes, the term "joy" was intentional.)
Here's to a fun 2012-13 season...please let there be one!
I could write more about the day, but let's leave it with a personal observation. This last ten months or so has been very trying for Blue Jackets fans. If a Blue Jacket fan has had fun as a result of the team's performance through the last NHL season, I've yet to meet him or her. As CBJ uber-fan (and DBJ contributor) Alison so aptly put it, Blue Jackets fans need to close the book on last season. How is it possible to re-emphasize that point enough?
While I was ambivalent over doing another CannonFest this time around - for a host of reasons, personal and otherwise - I ended up deciding to dive once more into the breach because Blue Jackets hockey, for better or worse, is important to me. I think I needed to re-associate Blue Jackets hockey with fun in my mind once again. I'm guessing a few of those in attendance did, too. CannonFest helped me get at least part-way there and hope those who needed the same found a little joy in the process. (And yes, the term "joy" was intentional.)
Here's to a fun 2012-13 season...please let there be one!
OTHER CANNONFEST 2012 RECAPS
- The Cannon - Your quick and dirty CannonFest placeholder post
- Fire That Cannon - CannonFest 2012 Sedate But Fun
- Columbus Blue Jackets - CannonFest 2012: The Best Yet
- Distinct Kicking Motion - Impressions of CannonFest
- Jackets Peanut Gallery - Columbus Blue Jackets: Jacketology 101 – CANNONFEST, 8/20/12, vol.4
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