Future Football Pros Share Performance Secrets In ‘Eastbay Edge’ Video Series
Eastbay, a leading athletic gear provider, launched an online video series to give promising football players an edge when choosing equipment for the upcoming season. The “Eastbay Edge” offers the most compelling insights from interviews with 90 pro combine participants. On the Eastbay Edge site, visitors can select their position – from QB and wide receiver to linemen and kickers – to hear what future pros said was most important when selecting cleats, gloves and pads.
“When I was a young football player coming up, there just weren’t as many equipment choices,” said former University of Wisconsin-Madison standout and NFL fullback, Cecil Martin, who conducted the interviews at the combine. “Young student athletes have so many options today. It can be overwhelming. Eastbay has a longstanding goal to help student athletes perform at their highest level. They’re giving young players and their parents the power of information and top quality choices in their selection of the right cleats, gloves and pads, to fit their style of play.” Read more
Bud Light Offering NFL Fans Season Tickets For Life
The official beer sponsor of the National Football League is about to make one fan’s dream come true. This year, football fans will have a chance to win Bud Light’s NFL Football Tickets for Life Sweepstakes, providing one fan a lifetime supply of tickets to his or her favorite NFL team.
Beginning Tuesday, May 8, 2012, fans age 21 and older simply can fill out an online entry form on the Bud Light Facebook page, www.facebook.com/BudLight, or at www.BudLight.com/TicketsForLife. Entries will be accepted through January 11, 2013, with the winner announced before Super Bowl XLVII. The winning fan will receive two season tickets to his or her favorite team’s regular season home games, along with a season parking pass, for up to 50 years beginning with the 2013 season.
“There’s nothing like cheering your favorite team from the stands on game day, and we’re going to make sure one of our fans enjoys that experience for life,” said Mike Sundet, vice president, Bud Light. ”We’re giving fans the opportunity to enter throughout the 2012 season because we want every single NFL fan to have the chance to throw their name in the hat.”
In addition to the entry form, adult fans can visit the official rules for the sweepstakes at www.facebook.com/BudLight and www.BudLight.com/TicketsForLife.
New Rawlings NRG Quantum Plus Earns 5-Star Rating
Headlined by the highest-possible “Best Available” 5-Star rank for its new Rawlings NRG Quantum Plus football helmet, Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Jarden Corporation (NYSE: JAH), received 4- and 5-Star ratings for all three of its adult-sized football helmets. These ratings were included in the latest Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings announced by Dr. Stefan Duma, professor of biomedical engineering and head of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences.
In addition to the 5-Star rated NRG Quantum Plus, Rawlings’ NRG Quantum and new NRG Impulse football helmets received 4-Star ratings, or a classification of “Very Good” based on this year’s study. The complete ratings are publicly available online at http://www.sbes.vt.edu/nid.
This marks the first year any Rawlings football helmet was tested and rated as Rawlings’ re-entry into the marketplace occurred after Virginia Tech’s first ratings release in May 2011. Read more
Panini America Inks Trading Card, Autograph Deal With No. 2 Overall NFL Draft Pick Robert Griffin III
Panini America (www.paniniamerica.net), the world’s largest sports and entertainment collectibles company, announced today that it has reached a trading card agreement with Washington Redskins quarterback and 2011 Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III for the 2012 season.
The deal will include Griffin’s first officially licensed NFL and NFL PLAYERS trading cards as well as his first licensed autographed trading cards.
“Robert Griffin III is one of the most dynamic playmakers to emerge at the quarterback position in many years and his extensive presence in our 2012 products will only add excitement to arguably the greatest rookie class of the last decade,” said Panini America CEO Mark Warsop . “We’re thrilled to have Griffin in the Panini America family and we can’t wait to deliver his historic first licensed trading cards to fans and collectors around the world.”
Griffin earned the first Heisman Trophy in Baylor University history following a terrific 2011 season that included 4,293 yards passing, a 72.4 completion percentage, 37 touchdown passes and just six interceptions. Griffin also rushed for 699 yards and 10 more touchdowns last season in leading the Bears to a 10-3 record and a stirring 67-56 win over Washington in the Alamo Bowl. Griffin was selected No. 2 overall by the Washington Redskins in this past weekend’s NFL Draft. Read more