It's a Recruiting Bonanza!!!!

[Reginald Rutledge]

I preface this by saying "I understand everybody is not interested in a stadium and those are not the people I am trying to reach".

I always tell people, if you don't have a stadium, you should not advertise a stadium! You probably should not take them to the FF.Net website and tell them this is a part of the game. Sometimes, when you are recruiting people into your league, if you show them things that you have no interest in having or even getting, it will definitely be false advertisement.

I once had a guy who had an NFL team wanting to do a show of him. A week before the show, he asked me if I could send him a stadium so he could show the NFL. He wanted it free but in turn, I would get major publicity from the NFL. I guess a sucker is born every day. On that day that the sucker was born, it must have skipped over my birthday! Anyhow, the show did not happen and the guy could never get up momentum to do what he wanted to do in his region of the company.

No one knows the kind of work, years, and experiences it took to create the marketing bonanza called the stadium. Some folks just think you should give the work away and just let them copy it. I sometimes think it is a curse to do all the things I do because it can never fully be appreciated. But a recent customer of mine gave me hope that in some pockets, it can and is appreciated for its value. He marvels on how cheap I sell my work. I told him this will soon pass for I will eventually leave this area. I tell him, "I just want people experiencing the game the way I do". I put that battlecry out for 15 years on these sites and the time is coming very soon to let that go.

But in the mean time, this customer just purchased an Alltel Stadium. These are his words and usually I never share the customer's intimate thoughts. But this is what I have been trying to tell the potential stadium owner for so many years.

This is from Coach J. David Theus (Jacksonville, Florida)
Reg,
You will not believe this. One of my friends was riding by the house and I flagged him down to show him my stadium. He got very excited about that and the players I was painting. He said he has a friend that has started up a community paper and that he would probably love to do a story on this. So he is going to get in touch with him this weekend and you may get your advertizing out in Jacksonville sooner than you or I thought. He also said the Jaguars would probably let me set up the stadium on a game day outside the real Attell stadium and pass out flyers for a league. Anyway, I may be gettng ahead of myself but I was thinking that if you were to make a flyer about your business and building stadiums, I could run them off for you and pass them out at the first pre season game against the Dolphins. It might give you some more business and I would be returning the tremendous help you gave me on the phone this morning. I will keep you posted.

David