Showing posts with label sports team. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports team. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Fan Pack Update (Monday and Tuesday) includes Nascar!

So Eli got some really good fan packs the past two days and we had one disappointment from the Postal Service.


So on Monday we received:

New England Patriots - Stickers, an 8x10 pre-printed Eli Manning photo, an 8x10 photo of the team and two pocket schedules.

Matt Tift (Nascar) Signed photo. It's an 8x10 I'd say, this was really cool!

(2) San Jose Sharks envelopes. Not sure why I have two but we'll take it! Inside they were identical. Two large player cards and a card that says THIS IS SHARK TERRITORY. A sticker and a temp. tattoo.

Envelope from University of Nebraska which had a sticker and a schedule.

And a big package from the Philadelphia Flyers which included this big poster thing that folds into a fan, a drawstring bag, three large 8x10 photos.


On Tuesday, we received two. The first was an awesome 8x10 hero card of Kevin Harvick from Outback Steakhouse. It wasn't signed but I do have his address so I'm sending both this photo and the one from Jimmy John's to see if I can get them signed for Eli.

Now the next package made me sad. It was a small signed photo from Patrik Laine. He's a hockey player, it included a decal and what looks like a temp. Tattoo. This package is so damaged by the postal service that it was ridiculous.



As for email responses, I did get several "send us an Self Addressed Stamped Envelope" emails. They are as follows:

Thank you for emailing Menards about hero cards! Unfortunately do not have racing hero cards available at Menards, but to obtain these cards from any of the Menards-sponsored drivers please send a self-addressed, 8x10” or greater pre-paid postage envelope with your specific request to:

Paul Menard #27 or #2 Cards
•           Richard Childress Racing
            Attn:  Paul Menard Autograph Request
425 Industrial Drive
Welcome, NC 27374

Brandon Jones #33 Cards
•           Richard Childress Racing
Attn:  Brandon Jones Autograph Request
425 Industrial Drive
Welcome, NC 27374

Matt Crafton #88 Autograph Request
•           ThorSport Racing
Matt Crafton Hero Card Request
PO Box 2218
Sandusky, OH  44871

Matt Kurzejewski #52 Autograph Request
•           Matt Kurzejewski Racing
2329 S Main St
Mansfield, PA 16933



Columbia Fireflies

As far as fan packs go we don’t have a lot to give since it is our first season. We can send you some pocket schedules and a magnet schedule if you would like, you just have to send us a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope first.

Our address is:
Columbia Fireflies
Attn: Schedules
PO Box 8810
Columbia, SC 29202

Stenhouse Jr Racing

We encourage you NOT to send items in for autographs and would like to advise you that the best way to obtain an autograph from a driver is to go to a scheduled appearance. That said, if you still would like to send in merchandise and/or autograph requests, you will need to send your requests to the driver's shop. The shop address is as follows:

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 
4202 Roush Place
Concord, NC 28027 

When you send in your request, it is required that you also send a self-addressed stamped envelope so your merchandise can be returned to you. If you are requesting a hero card, please include a 9x12 envelope with the proper postage as determined by the United States Postal Service with your request. . . this is a requirement in order to have your request processed.
Please note that Roush Fenway Racing is NOT responsible for items sent or lost, so again we discourage you from sending valuable items through the mail.






Sunday, June 26, 2016

Fan Pack Update + a New Project

So we've been doing this Fan Pack project with Eli, and once the packages started rolling in I saw a pretty upset 6 year old as she hadn't received anything. Lexie is a girly girl and isn't into sports so the problem was to trying to find a similar project but nothing I've found has a fast turn around time. So we started mailing letters to different voice actors for cartoons and children's movies. I'll break it all down for you once I'm done with the Fan Pack update.

There have been several email responses as well as packages that have shown up.

We've now received packages from: (*I'm adding ALL the packages and contents)

Boston Red Sox - Sent a tiny bag of dirt from Fenway, a sticker and a pocket schedule.
Charleston Cougars - Stickers, Posters and coasters from the Athletics Department.
Houston Texans - Poster, Children's Activity Book, Schedule, Bumper Sticker, and this 3D board thing that is pretty awesome.
Los Angeles Dodgers - Fun Facts sheet, Pocket Schedules, Magnet Schedule, Temp. Tattoo, Key Chain, and a copy of Dodgers Insiders.
Ottawa Senators - Schedule, Window Cling, Stack of Cards, Copy of the program Snapshot.
Arizona Cardinals - Schedule, Eye Black, Bumper Sticker
Dallas Stars - A small pennant, and three player cards.
Houston Astros - One player card and a pocket schedule
KSwiss - One of the only companies we emailed, sent 4 stickers.
Detroit Red Wings - Sticker, Sticky Pad, Temp, Tattoo, a card thing that could be used as a book mark.
Boston Bruins - Bracelet, Stack of Player Cards, bumper sticker, and a foam hockey puck. We emailed them back to ask if there was address we could send the player cards we received and was informed that they could not do that but would send us another fan pack. Go figure?
Washington Redskins - Bumper Sticker, player poster and a pom pom!
New York Giants - Pocket Schedule, NY Giants 2015 team photo, Pre-printed signed Eli Manning overlarge card, ELI bumper sticker,
Jacksonville Jaguars -  #morejay pin, think pink pin, 2 Temp. Tattoos, team stickers, a massive cardboard poster of the cheerleaders, and a bracelet.
Tampa Bay Yankees - Kidz Pack pamphlet with activities and fun facts about the Yankees, Tampa Yankees 2016 Program, Two stacks of Top Prospect cards, a Luggage Tag, and a pocket schedule.
Pittsburg Pirates - 2 Pocket Schedules and 3 player cards.
Cincinnati Reds - Two large magnets, one of their mascot the other is a schedule, Pocket schedule, two small Fat Heads wall decals.
Mountain Dew - Another one of the companies we emailed. He received a huge bandanna, 2 stickers and a giant Mt. Dew pennant.
OKC Thunder - bracelet, ink pen, 2 pocket schedules, patch, 2 large player cards.
Baltimore Orioles - Sticker, Tour Brochure, Large card of The Bird mascot, eye black, player card of Wayne Kirby, a keychain, and a pocket schedule.
Arizona Diamondbacks - A Diamond Pack booklet with a tear out poster.
Jimmy Johns - (Nascar Sponsor for Kevin Harvick) Sent two Harvick cups, a LARGE Hero Card, and a gigantic Jimmy Johns flag.
Kim Conley - She's an Olympian and she sent him a autographed photo.
LSU - Car plate thing, a shirt, and and Luggage Tag.
Chicago White Sox - 2 pocket schedules, one small deck of player cards, and a White Sox sticker.

Whew, so that's everything we've received. Eli's favorite things are the bracelets and stickers, and his two best packs were LSU and Jimmy Johns. Now we've had emails from the following with promises to send fan packs but haven't received yet, we are excited over the sheer number!

Minnesota Timberwolves
Cleveland Indians
Atlanta Braves
Milwaukee Brewers
Los Angeles Clippers
New York Mets
Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia Flyers
Calgary Flames
Old World Industries (Nascar Team)
Nature's Bakery (Nascar Sponsor for Danica Patrick)
Mobil 1 (Nascar Sponsor for Tony Stewart) Had us pick out a hat!!
Outback Steakhouse (Nascar Sponsor for Kevin Harvick)
Boston Bruins (Explained up top)
Zest (Nascar Sponsor for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.)
Lowe's Home Improvement (Nascar Sponsor for Jimmie Johnson)

And a few that requested an SASE.

Augusta Greenjackets
If you send a self addressed stamped envelop with your request we will send you some programs and pocket schedules.

Thanks for your support!

Catch the Buzz,

Tom Denlinger
General Manager
Augusta GreenJackets


Napa Auto Parts
If you would like an autographed driver card please send your request (for an 8”x10” driver card) with a self-addressed stamped envelope for its return to your address.

Chase Elliott Autograph Request 
P.O. Box 1948 
Dawsonville, GA 
30534

LA Galaxy
At this time we do not offer fan packs, but if you would like a Galaxy pocket schedule, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:

LA Galaxy
Pocket Schedule Request
18400 Avalon Blvd., Suite 200
Carson, CA 90746

And I had one interesting response from LalaLoopsy the toy people. We emailed them for stickers or whatever for Lexie and I was told to email back in a few weeks. So we will see how that goes.

Now I know up above was a LOT, but I do have some other things we are doing with Lexie as she's not into sports or anything of that nature. We've decided to mail/email actors and voice actors from cartoons and kids tv shows to see if we can get autographed photos.

I sent out 5 already and plan to send out another 5 this week.

This week we sent to Jodie Benson (Ariel from The Little Mermaid), Idina Mezel (Elsa from Frozen), Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story), Annie Pots (Bo Peep from Toy Story 1 & 2) and Kiara Muhammad (Doc McStuffins). We also sent out an email to her and an email to Yaya and Zouk.

This week we will be sending out Pat Carroll (Ursala from The Little Mermaid), Joan Cusack (Jessie from Toy Story 2 & 3), Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story) and Kathryn Beaumont (Alice from Alice in Wonderland) and I'm still debating on the firth one. I have a small list of actors who do respond with signed photos so I'm trying to send them all out as quickly as I can.

The reason I'm doing him again is that the package I sent out last week had some photos, this time I'm sending out the covers from two VHS tapes for Tristan.


Friday, June 10, 2016

Eli's Sports Team Project

I mentioned this briefly in the previous post but wanted to go more in depth with what we are doing. I basically just did a search online for Sports Fan Packs and used some of the email addresses to send out emails. I tallied everything up and we sent about 50 emails. The responses have been good!  A few teams sent "Digital" kits that you can download for yourself so I will include those for fans of those teams.

We started this with Eli who is a die hard sports fanatic. Any sport really, so this is a great way for him to reach out to a lot of teams and show his support. He is so excited. We set him up with an email address (we control his computer time and this email address is heavily monitored so no issues there!) and he's having a blast with it. We also helped him create a spreadsheet so he can track which teams respond as well. While visiting each team's website we've found all kinds of downloads from Coloring pages on up.


Here are the teams and emails we have received positive responses from.


1.) Minnesota Timberwolves - fansfirst@timberwolves.com - Super nice email response saying they would send a fan pack

2.) L.A. Clippers - fanassist@clippers.com - Super nice email response saying they would send a fan pack.
3.) Philadelpia Eagles - Filled out the form here http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/footer/contact-us.html
4.) Cleveland Indians - Fanservices@indians.com
5.) Milwaukee Brewers - fanfeedback@brewers.mlb.com
6.) Los Angeles Dodgers - fanfeedback@dodgers.mlb.com
7.) Atlanta Braves - I emailed Bravesweb@braves.com and received a response back asking that I send a 
request to fanpack@braves.com and allow 2-3 business weeks for delivery.
8.) New York Mets - fanfeedback@mets.mlb.com Received an email saying all they could send at this time were 
schedules. 
9.) Tampa Bay Yankees - blue@yankees.com Emailed Blue the mascot and he responded same day to let us know a package will be mailed on Monday! (It's Friday today)


Teams that asked we make our requests through Snail Mail:


1.) Carolina Panthers



Carolina Panthers
Attn: Fan Pack Request
800 South Mint Street
Charlotte, NC 28202

Priority consideration will be given to fans that include their Panthers stories.  Why do you love the Panthers?  What’s your favorite Panthers memory?


2.) New York Jets

If you are writing to request an autograph please write a letter to that player and send to the following address.

Player Name
1 Jets Dr
Florham Park NJ 07932

3.) Philadelphia Phillies

Phillies Community Outreach
Attn: Fan Packs
One Citizens Bank Way
Philadelphia, PA 19148

4.) Houston Texans

If you are interested in receiving a fan pack through the mail that will include some small Texans items, please send us a self-addressed stamped 9x12 envelope.  Please place $2 in postage on the self-addressed 9x12 envelope and we would be more than happy to mail you a fan pack. 
               
Fan Feedback
Houston Texans
NRG Stadium
Two NRG Park
Houston, TX 77054-1573

5.) Dallas Cowboys

Please address all requests for autographs specifically to the current or former player, coach or executive you are seeking the signature from. Simply address the envelope or fax to the attention of that specific person and it will become their personal mail. NOTE: While we encourage all players to respond to their mail, please understand that we are unable to guarantee a response.
For all other requests, please allow for at least a 6-8 week response time.

Requests can be mailed to:
ATTN: [Insert who you are addressing the request to]
Dallas Cowboys Football Club
One Cowboys Parkway
Irving, Texas 75063
972-556-9304 fax

Teams that sent a "digital fan pack" and the links to the printable fan packs.

1.) Toronto Blue Jays -  http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/tor/fan_forum/fan_pack.jsp
2.) Carolina Tarheels - http://www.goheels.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3350&ATCLID=209759973&SITE=UNC&DB_OEM_ID=3350 and http://www.replayphotos.com/uncphotostore/posters-pictures/_POST___0001024.cfm?SITE=UNC&DB_OEM_ID=3350
3.) Seattle Mariners - http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/fan_forum/index.jsp?c_id=sea