Sunday 12 July 2009

No group of guys deserves Philly's support more than these Owls



Owls have spent the last few days getting their brand name out.

By Mike Gibson
Al Golden has had to feel like a juggler in the last few days.
From the highly successful Al Golden Football Camp, to the Temple Owls' recent appearances on Independence Mall for a practice and Ocean City for a fanfest, the responsibilities of the head coach extend well beyond his office or the field below.
He's got to be part travel secretary, part football coach and it's a tougher job at Temple than most places because the Owls are battling for both visibility and respectability.
Even though he reached the advanced age of 40 a week or so ago, the coach is constantly keeping up with new technology to keep the Temple football brand name out there. He even joined twitter in the past few days and wouldn't getting daily Temple football updates on your cell phone in that manner from the Temple football coach be a hoot? Or a tweet?
"The Temple football team is a credit to Philadelphia and deserves to be rewarded with all of their hard work both on and off the field with a special season in 2009. Good luck, Owls, and a final piece of advice to the 260,000 living Temple alumni (along with 33K full-time students and 12K full-time employees): GET OUT AND BUY TICKETS TO SUPPORT THESE GUYS."
_ My comment on Philly.com
Occasionally, though, something happens to make all of the ancillary things worthwhile.
The Temple football team won the Wanamaker Award for community service to Philadelphia. With the Phillies winning the other top award given at the banquet, the focus was on both Temple football and the world champion Phillies.
Not a bad pairing.
In the story running in the Daily News earlier this week, writer Ed Barkowitz focused on Temple's football team as much as the Phillies.
This caused me to write the following response on Phillies.com:

The Temple football team is a credit to Philadelphia and deserves to be rewarded with all of their hard work both on and off the field with a special season in 2009. Good luck, Owls, and a final piece of advice to the 260,000 living Temple alumni (along with 33K full-time students and 12K full-time employees): GET OUT AND BUY TICKETS TO SUPPORT THESE GUYS.
Now is the time to put your money where you mouth is if you haven't already done so. Please donate $5 or $10 here if you want a daily internet voice for Temple football and its players.
Also, If you've never bought Temple tickets, buy season tickets now. Even if you've been to one or two games in the past, make a commitment to be at every game in this most important season.
It's as easy as a click away:


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