Come into the snark

Here's a new ad campaign. Kudos to the Dallas Stars:

As part of the team's "come into the cold" ad campaign to sell seats for 2007-08, The Stars took a shot at the NBA's referee scandal on a billboard near the American Airlines Arena, the building the Stars share with the Dallas Mavericks. The message? "The only thing our refs shave is the ice." One board reads "One game a week? Is the N in NFL for Nancy?" the Morning News reported. Even baseball was not immune, despite the fact Stars owner Tom Hicks also owns the Texas Rangers: Another billboard reads "Maybe baseball should stop using the word sacrifice," according to the Morning News.

At least the local team owners had a good sense of humor about it. Can you imagine if a Baltimore team did something like this and poked fun at the Orioles? Angelos would probably force D.C. to implode because of his wrath.