RECORD-BREAKING HOLIDAY CARD FOR TROOPS TO APPEAR AT SOVEREIGN BANK ARENA

December 6, 2006 | Newsroom, Events, News, Press Releases

(TRENTON, NJ - December 6, 2006) The Sovereign Bank Arena will help break records for the troops on Thursday, December 7 by displaying twenty-foot long sections of a banner holiday card for American Troops stationed in Iraq. The public is invited to sign the over-sized card at Gate A of the arena between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. during the New Jersey State Worker’s Blood Drive.

The banner was made in Hamilton and began as a twenty-foot long holiday banner for American Troops overseas and is now over 550 feet in length with over 20,000 signatures. The card will visit injured troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and will then be delivered to troops stationed in Iraq.

The card will also make an appearance at two Trenton Titans games this weekend against the Bakersfield Condors, including Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday night at 7 p.m. Fans will have the opportunity to sign the card during the games across from sections 116/117 and at the main escalator across from sections 106/107.

The card and its growing, record-breaking size were recently featured on a Fox news report and has all ready been assessed by the Guinness Book of World Records as a likely new record entry. The card is also featured on Fox’s homepage to encourage viewers to add their names to the Mayor of Hamilton’s long-standing internet “yellow ribbon” campaign honoring service members. The first of its kind in the nation, the internet yellow-ribbon campaign allows visitors to the website to click on a yellow ribbon icon and have their name and a yellow ribbon added to the hundreds already there for soldiers overseas to see.

Global Spectrum (global-spectrum.com) is the fastest growing firm in the public assembly facility management field with more than 60 facilities throughout the United States and Canada including the Sovereign Bank Arena. The Philadelphia-based company is part of one of the world’s largest sports and entertainment companies, Comcast-Spectacor, which also owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association, the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League, Flyers Skate Zone, a series of community ice skating rinks, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, a regional sports programming network, Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage services provider, New Era Tickets, a full-service ticketing and marketing product for public assembly facilities, and Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company and 3601 Creative Group, a full-service in-house advertising agency. In a partnership with Disson Skating, Comcast-Spectacor annually produces 10 nationally televised figure skating spectaculars on NBC.