OldGreyEagle 5 Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 I thought it was great the BSA had a float in the Rose Parade, especially the Zip Line featuring Venturers. The ABC announcers kep talking about Boy Scouts while a camera was trained on a female Venturer poised on a mountain bike. Would have been fun for them to mention that. Anyway, the BSA float won the National Award and its nice to see the BSA do something in the Rose parade to start out the 100th year Link to post Share on other sites
Kahuna 172 Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 No Sea Scouts. Poo! Link to post Share on other sites
SMT224 10 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 It was very good to see! Very positive for Scouting! My wife was watching the parade while me and all the kids were scattered around the house. But when she saw this one coming up she called us all in and we watched together. Everyone was happy to see scouting displayed so well. I was very pleased to hear one of the announcers say that every boy should experience Scouting. Good job and thanks so much to all those who put this one together! Link to post Share on other sites
rkfrance 11 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 You can watch it at http://www.ktla.com/entertainment/roseparade/ part 8 about the 9 minute point. Link to post Share on other sites
evmori 11 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I thought it was great! Link to post Share on other sites
Hal_Crawford 15 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 It was great; best piece of PR for scouting I have seen in a long time! I wonder how many million people were seeing that on the various channels. The announcers on HGTV all professed a current or past affiliation with Scouting (a former Cub, a former foreign scout and the mother of a Cub). One said "everyone should be a scout". Great start for the centennial year! Happy New Year. Hal Link to post Share on other sites
Adam S 10 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Beautiful float but It's the BOY SCOUT 100th, not the Venture 100th, I would have liked to see the Venturers included but the focus of that float should have been the BOY SCOUTS... The Cubs with over 75 years got less "face time" then the Venturers, and as mentioned, the Sea Scouts who have been around considerably longer then 10 years were ignored. Link to post Share on other sites
Eagle92 110 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Yep they forgot all about the 98 year old Sea Scout program. But most Sea Scouts are use to being the red-headed step child of Scouting. Link to post Share on other sites
evmori 11 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Where was the ACLU float? Link to post Share on other sites
CA_Scouter 11 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Now THAT'S funny! Perhaps they refused to participate because the Rose Parade discriminates against carnations. Link to post Share on other sites
SctDad 10 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 evmori and CA That was just SOOOOOOOO wrong. Funny as all get up, just wrong. Link to post Share on other sites
NE-IV-88-Beaver 10 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 While they seemed to focus on the Venture Scouts on the float, it was hard to miss the 300 Eagle Scouts marching with it. They got a good deal of play as well. It's a shame that the flyover cut the coverage short. Another good plug for Scouting in general were the Scouts from all phases acting as standard bearers before each unit in the parade. All in all, a very positive day for Scouting in 2010!! Link to post Share on other sites
Mafaking 10 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Good stuff for scouting! Navy fly over right on que when the Boy scouts were front and center. Link to post Share on other sites
SSScout 1615 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Very pretty. Bet we'll see an article in SCOUTER or BLife. No neckers? All bolo ties? Link to post Share on other sites
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