The 2010 Holiday Giveaway (for Charity) - Though most of us here at A Football Report are students with not a whole lot of spare change lying around, we hope to spark something special with this.
Looking around the internet and the Tumblr community, I’ve seen loads of little holiday competitions that give viewers an incentive (i.e. Gift Cards) to tweet or comment on a post. Competitions like these promote self-indulgence, don’t they?
Well, that’s not good for society. The idea of our giveaway is that the incentive is to raise awareness for a charity or non-profit you truly believe in and want others to get behind and support. In short, the incentive is, for once, not personally driven. However, we do reserve the right to commend and show respect to those who participate. We want you to argue for something that goes beyond yourself.
So tell us, tell your followers, or tell your friends about a good cause you support this holiday season!
It probably won’t surprise many of you that I’m choosing to go with Clint Dempsey’s brain aneurysm foundation. Great idea, this.
AFR is going to chat with London-based artist and lifelong Fulham supporter Example sometime in the near future about football. He’s finishing up a tour around the UK performing songs like “Kickstarts”, “Won’t Go Quietly”, and “Watch The Sun Come Up” off of his new album entitled “Won’t Go Quietly”. We want to open the interview up to you guys. So feel free to include any questions you might have below.
What would you like to ask the Cottager and “dysfunctional electro pop” artist? (Artwork above by Jon Horner. Example’s “Kickstarts” Music Video is below.)
Isn’t it obvious? Example needs to invite Clint to do a verse on one of his tracks.
One of my favorite moments of the summer: chatting with Clint Dempsey before the 2010 World Cup
Growing up in Boston, Clint Dempsey was the playmaker with my local MLS team: The New England Revolution. His swagger and confidence was something I had never seen before in the league. Anyway, watching the interview, you might think it was a little odd that I asked him whether or not he missed Mexican food. However, my friends and I would always go to Anna’s Taqueria in Porter Square on Friday afternoons for lunch, and we saw Clint there a good half dozen times eating a signature “Super Burrito”. For a week or so after this summer, I gained demigod status amongst my friends for asking that question about Anna’s, which was more of an icebreaker than anything. In short, Clint Dempsey is a burrito-loving honorary Bostonian, and a cool guy. He also likes to say “bro”, bro.
