Enter the Fumbled Returns NFL Draft Contest for your chance to win a Starbucks $10 Gift Card!
4 Easy Questions, 1 Great Prize. Must be a registered user to win!
1 entry per user. Contest is open until the start of the draft. All questions are based on official 1st round activity after the draft starts – not any pre-draft trades or deals.
Good Luck! (and no, Mr Luck is not one of the possible answers…) 😉
A few weeks ago, “M” (name concealed to protect the not so innocent) proclaimed “If Tebow wins, I’m getting a tattoo”. This was in advance of the Broncos playing the Steelers.
Of course, we all know how that one turned out. And poor “M” was doomed. Best part, he not only proclaimed this bet to me, but to practically everyone he knows. So he could not weasel out of it.
In fact, as soon as Demaryius Thomas stopped running, I texted “M”, “I want to see your Tattoo!”
Even his wife wanted in on fulfilling this bet and started designing the Tattoo pattern herself! Then, after everyone kept asking when, WHEN is this going to happen? “M” said that his wife suddenly did not want him to get the Tattoo.
So I turned on my investigative reporting skills and found out why. . .
Not to be deterred, I offered up a suggestion from one of my kids temporary tattoo decal collections.
Then I heard that my suggestion had inspired “M”’s wife to try again with a computerized, more spell check enabled, design.
Looking at her design, I kind of like it but thought it might be a bit too busy for a Tattoo. So perhaps a more standard or simple horse/bronco tattoo might do just as well. Here are two suggestions.
So, I am putting these up for vote. And this is where I could use your help, and all of your friends help and all of their friends help as well.
Vote up the design of your choice by joining the Fumbled Returns Fan Page on Facebook and like the photo you think is best.
Be sure to tweet, re-tweet, post, re-post, recommend, re-recommend, share and re-share to as many people as possible.
Yes, I want this to go viral.
I will keep the voting up until Super Bowl Sunday. The winning design, the one with the most Likes/Votes, will be the official Fumbled Returns Tebow Tattoo Bet for “M” and his tattoo artist of choice.
And best of all, you can claim your part of history by being able to say I voted for that one myself!
Until next time . . .
Be Good, Do Well, Have Fun and vote in the “I Lost a Tebow Tattoo Bet” contest!
Fumbled Returns 2nd Annual Mutt Madness Contest.
Hey Hickory ! You just won the Westminster Dog Show, what are you going to do now?
I am going to enter the Fumbled Returns Mutt Madness Contest !
Who will win?
My original idea for this post was a kind of Drama award for the NFL.
We certainly have had (and continue to have) plenty of teams, coaches, owners and players all worthy of some sort of Headline or Drama award this year.
I even had a couple top contenders in mind (Vikings and Brett Favre) vs ( Redskins, AH, McNabb, Shanahan). Yes the Redskin side out numbers the Vikings, but only in candidates.
There are plenty of other contenders out there and everyone (fans), depending on their loyalties and personalities, will have his or her own favorites.
The first dilemma I encountered was how to choose and whom?
One way might be to go simply by number of news articles for 2010. I quickly realized, that despite my , and a certain followers preferences, the previously mentioned; surprisingly are NOT necessarily top contenders.
Google 2010 news articles:
Brett Favre ——— 19K results
Donovan McNabb —— 9K results
Albert Haynesworth — 4K results
Mark Sanchez ——– 11K results
Minnesota Vikings — 21K results
New York Jets ——- 28K results
New York Giants —– 31K results
I could have done more but I did not feel like going through every possible team and player combination out there.
Another way to choose a winner might be to go simply by popularity.
For this I turned to social media to look for answers.
Again, I found some surprising results.
Teams with most Facebook fans:
#1 Dallas Cowboys
#2 Pittsburgh Steelers
#3 New Orleans Saints
#4 New England Patriots
#6 Minnesota Vikings
#10 Washington Redskins
Then we have the number of people who “like” something, or in this case, somebody else:
673K people like the Minnesota Vikings
440K people like the Washington Redskins
1.16 million people like the New England Patriots
1.26 million people like the Steelers
But what about some of the players?
T.O. has 390K people who like him (obviously there is no accounting for taste as you will soon see)
Favre 98K like him
Mcnabb 40K like him
Only 1K people like Haynesworth.
Randy Moss, has 170K liking him.
Ochocinco 1.3 million people like him (Really?)
And, sad to say, two of my personal favorite NFL role models:
5K like Darrell Green.
2.5K like London Fletcher.
Twitter had some equally interesting results for top followers:
#4 Kerry Rhodes
#7 Mark Sanchez
#9 NY Jets
#11 New England Patriots
#16 ndamukong_suh
#21 Vikings
Oh, and now for something completely different, one funny listing I saw regarding “most retweeted” for 2010 . . .
OK, now that I have totally digressed beyond / past my original idea, let me pull everyone back to how to choose and present an award.
For this, I took inspiration from the original photo I so grandiosely trashed. The Oscars and the Academy Awards.
Instead of creating a dull and most likely incomplete poll, I am going to create discussion threads on my Fumbled Returns Facebook Fan Page with the following Categories:
Best NFL Actor
Best NFL Art or Sign
Best NFL Fan Costume
Best Rant
Best Action Shot
Best Sound Effect
Best Unscripted Comment
Best Dance
Best Score
Best Commercial
And stealing one from categories turned down . . .
Best Juvenile Award
Within these discussion threads anybody will be able to nominate their own personal suggestion / link and or agree with one that is already there.
I will keep the threads open through the remainder of the season, including the playoffs and super bowl.
And in keeping with the original inspiration, tally the votes and announce the awards sometime around the real academy awards in 2011.
So, you all have some time to think about your choice awards for each category and submit an entry.
Submit multiple entries if you like.
Or confirm that you end up liking one already there.
Lets see who wins!
Yes folks, after an exciting month of competition (we had only one entry) and a last minute round of fast and furious voting, we have a winner of the first (and probably last) Fumbled Returns Mutt Madness Competition.
The voting was extremely close (no votes were cast, not even by the owner of the loan entry!) and the judges had a really hard time deciding on the winner (after all, is there really a winner if nobody voted?)
But after much deliberation, checking and re-checking of the rules, counting and recounting of votes, a winner of both the Veterans Group and the overall competition has been chosen…
Congratulations to Sam and Grace !
In the spirit of March madness and in an effort to honor all sport fans, both human and non human, I introduce the first annual Fumbled Returns Mutt Madness Contest.
Actually, it is a really boring time for football and fantasy football fans everywhere and I was looking for a way to spice things up a bit.
So, without further delay, I introduce Fumbled Returns Mutt Madness!!!
The Rules:
1) Open to any sport or team or athlete of your choice.
2) Open to any type of Dog of your choice. Sorry, we are dog people no other pets allowed in contest.
3) Decorate your dog(s) in your favorite team or sport hero’s colors, logos, uniforms, or what ever you can think of. The end result should be to show both yours and your pets loyalty and passion and humor for the sport and the game.
These next ones should be obvious but I am going to include them anyway…
4) No permanent damage and or do not physically harm your pet in any way.
5) Tasteful entries only please, though I will be the judge as to what is tasteful or not, and I have been known to have my moments (slip ups in judgment). So if you have a risqué risky idea (but not too much) go ahead and submit it.
Contest starts March 1st and ends March 29th.
Category winners will be announced March 30th.
Top Dog (Grand Prize Winner) will be announced March 31st.
The Categories:
Rookies: This is for puppies up till the age of 1 year. Because we all know that puppies have mega cute factor when young and may pose an unfair advantage to the older entries.
Veterans: Adult dogs over 1 year of age. Despite the fact that nearly all sports and contests are split between men and women, I am keeping this as one category. After all, we all know that both are equal… right? 😉
Groupies: For entries of two or more pets.
Faux-Paws: (for photochop experts)Because, we all know that there always some athletes and contestants who are… “enhanced”.
Entries and Winner Determination:
Send all entries to fumbledreturns@gmail.com
Please include your pet(s) name and the category you wish to be entered in.
All approved entries will be posted on the Fumbled Returns Facebook Fan Page for everyone to view, comment and most importantly VOTE ON.
Each category will be a separate photo album on the fan page.
You can cast your vote by pressing the “like” button on the entries you like most.
You can vote for more than one entry but not multiple times for the same entry.
The Prizes:
The winner of each category will receive a yet to be determined prize (probably some sort of sports chew toy). If there is a tie (as in two or more category entries have the same number of “like” votes) the tie breaker will be who has the most favorable comments. If there is still a tie, I get to pick.
A grand prize, Top Dog, winner will be chosen, by my wife and I, and receive a complimentary hand painted painting of the winner as interpreted by my lovely and talented wife.
You can see excellent examples of her work on Etsy.
She also runs a blog called Hope and Greyz.
So everyone get your thinking caps on, and get as creative as you can be, and dress up those wonderful pets of yours.
Spread the word to all your friends to try and get the most votes and may the best contestant win!
Check back as often as you wish to view new and updated entries!
Chris Cooley is such a great route runner, now you can have him pack and ship your holiday presents!
It’s actually a contest but you really can try and fight through the crowds and get his autograph….
OK, so I got it in my head to do more “fan” support for my favorite NFL football team.
But I wanted to do it in a non abusive, non over the top, but subtle – classy way.
So, that ruled out all the Redskin Lingerie and underwear.
Sorry folks, no pictures of that on this blog…
So what did I come up with?
This! A really cool case/holder for my blackberry 8830!
It is something I carry around with me almost constantly.
Is definitely seen in public.
Yet, is none obtrusive, functional and lets everyone know who my favorite team is.
I found it on accessorygeeks.com .
This site intrigued me not only because they had such a large selection of accessories, they (in my quest to find NFL related stuff) had tons of cases for cell phones, ipods, and pagers as well; all at good prices.
The other thing that appealed to me about this site is the fact that they have a “green” contest going on.
Sign up to one of their social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube).
Post a picture of you being green in a socially and environmentally conscience sort of way.
Submit it to them and you are entered into a monthly drawing for free stuff.
Totally cool!
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