Job opening in Fargo next weekend

[NLGrizFan]

FCS North Dakota State will host this weekend’s College Game Day!

I am in need of (2) Rock Star Brand Ambassadors who are youthful, vivacious, fit, outgoing, respectable, professional, and love college football to work on:

Saturday, September 21st - 8am-12noon
Brand Ambassador Rate: $17 p/hr
Onsite Backup Rate: $30 (flat) to arrive onsite to see if you are needed to work;
If you are needed to work, you will assume the role and responsibilities for the Brand Ambassador position.
If you are not needed, you will be released and paid a flat rate of $30.

The activation will occur in Fargo, ND at/near the FCS North Dakota State University campus; this promotion is for Ryobi Tools (Ryobi reps will be onsite to demonstrate the product and enter fans to win prizes).

Brand Ambassadors will be:
- engaging football fans via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
- taking photos for the fans (with their smart phones or cameras and helping them post to social media
- you will be encouraging fans to enter the Ryobi “giveaway” onsite

If you feel that you would be a great fit for this event; please forward (2) client appropriate photos; 1-headshot and 1-body shot to [email protected]. Please keep in mind, this is a fun college promotion and your photos will be sent to the client for approval.

Please visit our website and submit a new application - http://www.FusionEventStaffing.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Thanks!!

 

[MrG]

Sounds like Alpo & Argh.

 

[Griz1952]

Out of respect to EGRIZ and Griz Nation, * were used to replace name of "fan" base mentioned in article

By Mike McFeeley KFGO

Stop embarrassing yourselves, ***** fans.

While your passion for your team and your university are laudable, do you really believe whining and starting Facebook campaigns to influence ESPN's decision-makers is making you look big-time?

Or do you think it makes you look parochial and bush-league?

Because here's the deal: The way some of you are griping about the decision to base ESPN's College GameDay in downtown Fargo and not near the Fargodome for the North Dakota ***** game makes it seem like y'all don't get out much.

ESPN, which knows a thing or two about good sports television and a thing or three about producing an excellent college football pre-game show, has stated clearly the reason it chose downtown Fargo is because of its uniqueness. It is something that, as outsiders coming to our community for the first time, stands out to them. And they know how to make it into good television ... which is their No. 1 goal.

"Downtown Fargo will create the best backdrop. It's like a postcard. It's like 'Downtown, USA,'" ESPN producer Lee Fitting said in an e-mail. "It Will be great for America to get a glimpse of this. We rarely do shows by a stadium anymore. It just doesn't create the best backdrop. I'd like to think people will come, even though it requires a little effort. It will be worth it."

Seems clear enough. Yet a fair number of **** fans, even when given that entirely logical explanation, continue to belly-ache that the Fargodome or the tailgating area would be the best location from which to broadcast GameDay.

Their biggest complaint seems to be based on tailgating. No. 1, that fans can't easily walk from tailgating to the GameDay set. No. 2, that ESPN is going to miss the ***** game-day atmosphere because **** tailgating is just so huge and so outstanding that no person in their right mind could see it any other way.

To address No. 1: ESPN coming to Fargo/**** is a once-in-a-lifetime deal. If you can't set down your cocktail wienies and beer long enough to travel 2.1 miles downtown to see a once-in-a-lifetime event being broadcast worldwide, then you are more interested in boozing than cheering for your team/school and enjoying the game-day excitement.

To address No. 2: **** tailgating, while having grown into a big deal for Fargo and ***** fans the last several years, is not in any way unique to college football nor is it all that large compared to major football universities. ESPN, folks, has broadcast from universities where tailgating is much larger and much crazier ... and the network still didn't base its production at tailgating. Going back to Fitting's quote: "We rarely do shows by stadiums anymore."

How is ****'s tailgating any different than ANY OTHER TAILGATING IN THE COUNTRY

The answer: Other than being on a smaller scale, it is not different. It is not unique.

This is not meant to criticize **** tailgating. It has grown into a big, fun event. It is the party on the prairie. ***** fans travel well and they take their tailgating on the road. It is all good.

But places like Ole Miss, Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame -- you know, the truly big-time football schools -- know how to tailgate, too. And they've been doing it for decades and they do it on a big scale.

Take Texas A&M, for example. has an estimated 35,000-40,000 fans tailgating before the game. That's twice as many people that are inside the Fargodome during a sold-out game. Aggie fans were voted the No. 1 tailgaters in the country by something called Tailgaters Magazine. Ole Miss' tailgating in "The Grove" is a remarkable experience. The list goes on.

Look at it from ESPN's perspective: It travels to college town. Fans tailgate. They drink. They grill. They act wacky. They drink. They paint their face. They drink.