Deal-of-the-day website Groupon is today offering Huntsville-area subscribers two mezzanine-level tickets to an upcoming Huntsville Havoc hockey game for only $19. You also get free hats.
Hockey teams like the Havoc, reads the announcement, are often named after “intimidating natural phenomena.” There’s the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Colorado Avalanche…
… and, apparently, The Tuscaloosa Puberty.
Intimidating? That’s freakin’ terrifying.
(God only knows what sorts of freebies you get at a TP game.)
Perhaps “Tuscaloosa Puberty” is another nickname of the University of Alabama club hockey team The Frozen Tide. Or perhaps this is the humorous result of an overlooked auto-correction… though we have no idea what it would be mistakenly auto-correcting — is there a natural disaster or intimidating phenomenon close in spelling or syntax to “puberty”? Is there any sports team nicknamed The Puberty? Not that we could find.
TWER reader Steve Jones, who submitted the iPad screen cap, thinks that it could be a daring form of market research intended to determine whether anyone in Huntsville — or anywhere — actually reads Groupon’s ad copy.
If so, well played, Groupon… well played.
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Tuscaloosa Sink Hole? Tuscaloosa Redneck Stampede? Tuscaloosa Cesspool? All valid names “Puberty” could have replaced.
Brings new meaning to “crimson tide” now, doesn’t it?
@Patrick – HAHAHAHAHAHA
This wasn’t a mistake or market research. If you read Groupon’s editorial bits, they’re normally pretty tongue-in-cheek, snarky, and sometimes a little risque. I still haven’t bought any of the deals, but I do read the write-ups just about everyday just because they’re funny. This does make me want to make Tuscaloosa Puberty hats or shirts. Almost as good as the Montgomery Biscuits.
That explains it. Knew it had to be something like that, didn’t know they were known for it, though. Thanks!
it also shows up on the groupon for the nashville predators groupon!