I noticed that. They seem kinda broken.
* The homepage is amateurish. Seems weird to me, they've got an entire herd of 12 year olds, former 12 year old participants and parents, many of whom could do a better job.
* No rifle raffle (very alliterative) tix sales on their website or Facebook page, as you say, not even on their fundraising
Sponsorship form and
Personal Fundraisers page.
* The Facebook page is a little sharper, but not by that much.
* The homepage says, "Check out our FAQ page before messaging us on Facebook." However, I was not able to find a link to their Facebook page anywhere on their website, including the
2022 FAQ page.
* There's no web contact form and I had trouble finally finding an email address on their Sponsorship form.
* One can do Silver Sponsorship for $500. This gets you:
- Business Logo on our EHYFC website
- Business will be announced at all our
home games.
- A sponsor banner on our EHYFC
Facebook page.
- Business placed on our Sponsor banner
I'm not seeing any sponsor banner on the website or Facebook page. How is this possible that they can't rope some businesses in?
From their response whine:
We're currently taking applications for an official Fund Raiser.
Looks like they really need it. If they had a prior one s/he sucked.
GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:08 pm
Guessing the item was donated or steeply discounted.
It's weird that I'm not seeing the seller mentioned or thanked anywhere. It does look like something's blurred on the gun pic, maybe it's there.
The article:
The FN 15, which has an AR-style magazine, is up for grabs through raffle tickets sold by parents of the athletes.
I guess that's better than children 5-12 years old selling rifle raffle tix door-to-door, though I bet some kids are doing the selling. Would having a rifle raffle ticket in school violate "Zero Tolerance"? Pretty good advertising to have scores or hundreds of parents hawking your rifle.
Social media must be burning up over this here. Here we are a Californian, a Floridian, a Tennessean, one Hootervillite and an Illinoisy (what is the term?) that are wound up about this.
Maybe not, though, the article:
“I thought it was in very bad taste for them to choose a weapon that is being used against children,” said a Henderson County parent who did not want to be identified.
The whine:
In response to complaints made both publicly and "anonymously" regarding our raffle:
Folks afraid of ammosexual reaction? Even EHYFC, the article:
A spokesperson declined an on-camera interview with News 13 but released a statement regarding the decision to host the raffle:
The spokesperson is not IDed anywhere. That's just weird.
Of course, having youth football at all in the age of CTE is a whole new debate.
There's this link from the EHYFC article:
Even this gunhugger is a tad more circumspect than EHYFC:
... The fundraiser comes as the nation continues to recover from the nearly 360 mass shootings that have taken place in the United States just this year.
“There’s a reason there’s not an AR [15] in there,” explained Pless, as he described the guns up for raffle....