Hockey fans rarely get an opportunity to tailgate before games, so when a game moves to a football stadium with outdoor parking lots, you need to take advantage. Before the Caps take on the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, RMNB is hosting a tailgate and meetup for friends who are attending the game (weather permitting).
By Nathan Burchfiel 6 years ago
Get a good night’s sleep, because you’ve got some partying to do tomorrow.
This is your firm reminder that our tenth ever party begins at noon on Saturday at Iron Horse in DC. Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know about #RMNBX.
By Peter Hassett 7 years ago
Note: Orly won’t be at the party. He’s got a game that night.
We’re nearing the end of the greatest regular season in Caps history, so now it is time for the greatest party in RMNB history.
Come party with us at RFD on Saturday, April 9! We’re calling it #RMNB9: O RLY!
By Peter Hassett 8 years ago
Prepare yourselves. It is time.
We haven’t thrown a real party since last March–when the Oates!Caps won in San Jose. That was way too long ago. We gotta do it again.
By Peter Hassett 9 years ago
On Friday night, we hosted a private party at a bowling alley in Frederick, Maryland, to say thank you to all the readers who donated to help make RMNB last. We raised nearly $26,000, which is going to go a long way towards helping us do some special projects and improve in general.
But let’s talk about the party. It was a frigging blast and that’s not just because I got gifts for my 30th birthday (thanks, Sarah!). Around 80 of you drove up to our hood and bowled while the Terrace Lanes’ crew blasted unspeakably bad 90s music over the loud speakers. There was lots of drinking (a tenet of a good party), a lot of bad dancing (another tenet of a good party), and some unintentionally synchronized outfits.
We originally planned to end the party at 11:30 PM, but reader Charles just was like eff that, and extended everyone’s lanes until 12:30 AM.
That’s just the type of readers we have.
Amanda Bowen did us a solid and photographed the first hour of the party. Check those out, and please if you have any photos of your own, share them in the comments below.
The Brouwers with all three Brouwer Rangers. (Photo: Sheena D.)
9/8 Update: With post-event bake sale money and online donations included, the total raised actually comes to $2,800!
Thanks to everyone who braved the wicked traffic to come out to PARTYZORD: The Brouwer Rangers/RMNB ‘Legends of Ice Dancing’ Tour de Pouwer (to Support Fort Dupont Ice Arena)™ on Saturday morning. In just two short hours, we raised more than $2,100 for Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena! Can you believe it?!
That includes money contributed through the raffle, bake sale and silent auction, and surpasses the total donation we made along with the Brouwers last year! Even better is that the real total is probably even higher than that, thanks to folks who couldn’t make it out to the party but still donated online. (If you’d like to do that now, head over to FDIA’s donation page.)
We think Emily put it best:
Fun to skate with the @brouwerrangers and fans of @russianmachine– but donating $$ to keep hockey free for kids? That’s amazing. #Caps
— Emily Wright (@EmilyCello) September 6, 2014
By Nathan Burchfiel 9 years ago
Skaters on the ice at Fort Dupont Ice Arena. Photo: Friends of FDIA
This Saturday, Sept. 6, RMNB and the Brouwer Rangers are hosting #PARTYZORD: The Brouwer Rangers / RMNB ‘Legends of Ice Dancing’ Tour de Pouwer (to support Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena)™.
Between the special guests (ahem, Troy and Carmen Brouwer, anthem singer Bob McDonald, etc.), the raffle prizes and sundry shenanigans (e.g. Ian fulfilling his Ice Bucket Challenge), it’s going to be a lot of fun. But it’s also going to raise money for a really worthy cause. We wanted to take just a minute to tell you more about it.
By Nathan Burchfiel 9 years ago
This is just some of the stuff we’re raffling off at #PARTYZORD!
#PARTYZORD: The Brouwer Rangers / RMNB ‘Legends of Ice Dancing’ Tour de Pouwer (to support Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena)™ is just 2 days away! In the extremely unlikely event you need more reason to come than just hanging out with us (and Troy and Carmen Brouwer, and Bob McDonald) and ice skating, we wanted to give you a sneak peek at what you could be taking home from the rink.
We’ve had a great response from local businesses that wanted to join us in supporting Fort Dupont Ice Arena by donating gift cards and other goodies to the raffle. Here’s what we’ll be raffling off (as pictured above):
By Nathan Burchfiel 9 years ago
Anthem singer Bob McDonald, not in spandex, and the Brouwer Rangers. (Photo: @CAPLDY)
Yesterday, we announced that Troy and Carmen Brouwer will be joining us this Saturday, Sept. 6, for #PARTYZORD: The Brouwer Rangers / RMNB ‘Legends of Ice Dancing’ Tour de Pouwer (to support Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena)™. But if hanging out with the Washington Capitals’ best player* and his cool wife isn’t your thing, maybe our next VIP guest will be.
We’re excited to announce that the one and only Bob McDonald – star of stage and screen, part-time wine snob and certified American hero – will be kicking off the festivities with his beloved rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” a.k.a. our national anthem, promptly at 10 a.m.
By Nathan Burchfiel 9 years ago
