Draft dudes, catch a real game in person Saturday night
April 26, 2006 - American Indoor Football Association (AIFA)
Daytona Beach Thunder News Release
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- So it's Saturday and you're settling in to watch the draft. You got your drinks, your chips and you're prepared to spend the next six or seven hours viewing what's primarily a bunch of sportscasters yacking and a few minutes of actual news. But you love football and you wanna be in the know. The Daytona Beach Thunder's cool with that. After all, football expertise is like the measure of manhood for the new millennium. You gotta see those clips of some poor quarterback from a directional school getting crunched by some massive linebacker and you'll never be cool unless you're able to break down the Lions' need for pass protection and how some guy from Boise State is going to revolutionize blind size protection, at least in your opinion.
And to this we say: Dude, get off your sorry butt, out of your living room and come watch some REAL football!
You know, quarterbacks dropping back in the pocket, kickers shanking field goals, receivers running post routes, lineman knocking the snot out of each other, coaches complaining to officials about bad calls. It's a beautiful thing, man. Besides, the Lions are always going to suck.
Any third-rate buttmunch has an opinion about pro football, and 92.5 percent of them host call-in shows on sports talk radio. Why not instead mingle with other actual human beings and watch a game in person?
The Thunder has a home game Saturday against the Augusta Spartans at 7 p.m. at PBS 15 Field at the Ocean Center. Yeah, we know it's also draft day, and so we've come up with these brilliant promotions:
Go to our web site - www.dbthunder.net and download your very own draft tracker. Keep it updated until you leave to come to our game, bring it with you - beer stains, cheese dip remnants and all - and get in to see an actual football game for $5.
If your name includes "Mel" or Kiper," you also get in for $5.
If your name is Mel Kiper, you get in for free and can probably a better job forecasting the day's events than the other person who shares your name.
We were going to do a Mel Kiper haircut thing, but the barbers and beauty shop owners we talked to have some sort of oath that prevents them from cutting hair like that.
If the draft is still going on, the guy on the PA will make announcments. Happy now?
The Thunder is 4-4 and battling to stay in the American Indoor Football League Southern Conference playoff picture. Come out and support a local football team rather then stay at home and watchi some one elses.
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