NASHVILLE — There is a car, or what used to be car, painted in Anaheim Ducks’ colours and parked outside Bridgestone Arena. All series long, fans have been paying $10 for the chance to swing a sledgehammer at it. Pay $20 and they’ll let you take three swings — and even throw in a cowboy hat.
It’s a heckuva of a deal. And it’s so very Nashville.
As Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle said last week, “you see these elderly women out there with a sledge hammer taking a pounding at a car that’s got a Ducks logo on it … those are the kinds of things you look to, that passion that’s been developed in their market.