Brandon, I've been impressed by the way this has evolved but must have missed 5 pages. I thought the intention was to encourage attendance and to support the nix by offering a bought ticket to Joe Bloggs to attend a game.
Now it is the full shebang to a family who are having a tough time for the whole of the season..
Did I miss something on this journey..
Easy to do - things have morphed bloody quickly.
So here's the Oxford abridged summary...
Yes, this thread used to be called Brandon's Phoenix Ticket Challenge or something like that.
If you go back and read the first post, I said I was going to buy a ticket for each home game and give it away... and I am still going to do that.
I challenged others who could afford to to do the same. And others are. RedGed for example is buying a ticket for each home game and he and I are still going to walk down Lambton Quay on Friday and give tickets to people as a random-act-of-kindness.
However, from small beginnings, great things grow...
Matt (Yakcall) said "Great Idea... I am going to buy a family pass for this weekend's game, and give it to a kid and their family at Ronald McDonald House..."
And a bunch of people said - man! That's a great idea, can I contribute? I'll happily commit funds to that... maybe we could do it every game? Maybe we could give them a Yellow Fever scarf too? etc. etc.
Once it became apparent to me that there was more than the ordinary amount of good will and support for the idea I suggested to Matt, based on the success of the YF funsdraiser for the Football United John Alder and Liam Sweeny appeal, that we start a www.givealittle.co.nz fund so that people could donate to the cause.
And, well, the rest is history...
The Yellow Fever faithfull have embraced the idea, Ronald McDonald House have emebraced the idea, WestpacTrust Stadioum have embraced the idea, The Wellington Phoenix have embraced the idea, Bethel Woods have emebraced the idea - and so far we've raised $1630 with more to come in the proceeds from raffles of elite members lounge passes, and all sorts of stuff.
It's bloody fantastic.
So far the only people I can think of who haven't embraced the idea are the Doom Post, but I sent them some tweets earlier today saying "how cool is this story?" so maybe they will catch up soon.
Life is good.
Morale is high.
Come on you Nix!