Hey, wait a minute, there's no birth-day party for me here!
The Oregonian is reporting that Portland's favorite injured superstar had to miss a 20th birthday party hosted for him at the Roseland Theater on Friday night.
The doors at Roseland Theater opened to the public at 9 o'clock Friday night, and there was a $15 cover charge for Greg Oden's birthday party. And there was alcohol served. And the promoters signed a deal with Toyota to sponsor the event.
More than 800 customers, 18 and over, were on the preliminary guest list, and there were lines of walkups.
Sounds like an amazing night. Until the agents got involved:
Oden has a team of agents who learned about the birthday party on Friday and were understandably nervous about how it was promoted. Then, his agents discovered there was a cover charge and alcohol would be served. And they saw Toyota's Scion logo on the billing, and after they finished slapping their foreheads, they called their client.
His agents clearly earned their paychecks on this one. Not to mention the deft image work they did in preventing a thousand fans from seeing their hero roll up in a Taurus.
(Via SBB)
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Taurus, huh? It kind of reminds me of standing outside of Riverfront and seeing Chris Sabo pull up in his rusted jalopy.
that first link points to the printer-friendly page, which pops up a print dialog box... kind of weird
This dude can't catch a break, but you're right the agents did earn their money. I'm sure the "jailblazer" ownership was also happy about that.
Nice catch NJC. The link should be pointing to the regular version of the page now.
Finally!
Wait! Why isn't my gravatar working dammit?!?
Aha! There it is!!!
Thanks for the look Jason, glad you liked it...