Begging Time

http://www.3rddegree.net/thirdindex.cfm?page=article&show=1089

It's that time of year again, the time that 3rd Degree comes begging to finance our 4th Annual FCD Spring Road Trip. FC Dallas General Manager Michael Hitchcock says this year the team is going to Spain and the England. I will go a step farther and say it's around March 2nd to March 16th the team will be overseas.

Last year 3rd Degree managed to raise just short of $2000 to finance our trip and this year our expectations are similar. The good news is the exchange rate is more in our favor this year. The bad news is that the England portion will raise the costs as England in normal hotels and restaurants will be more expensive than the resort in Spain which is set up for the large group. The two segments also breaks up the stay into multiple hotels, which again makes it more expensive.

I figure about $100 a night will be typical and is an average I can plan around, although that will probably mean discount hotels near the team in the UK. That makes hotels for the trip roughly $1400. My real job thankfully got the frequent flyer miles for the flight, but it was a bit of a doozy in miles with the three legs. Ad in food, miscellaneous travel expenses, and anything unforeseen and it should give me a bottom target of about $2000 if I can manage the entire thing on about $50 a day in extra expenses.

Over the last nine years 3rd Degree has been offering top notch coverage of the FC Dallas, and we feel the top coverage in all of MLS, all out of our own pocket. This is not a operation that makes money. All the ads you see are trades for services it takes to run our set up.


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At $20 per person it will take 100 supporters of this site to make the $2000. If you can't swing $20, I are more than willing to take anything you are willing to give, heck $1 is great. In fact the trip this year will be 17 days for myself (I am leaving one day before the team), $20 is just over a $1 a day. How about it, is following the team in Europe worth a $1 a day to you? Only you can set the value 3rd Degree brings to you.


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Thanks again for reading 3rd Degree. We look forward to many more years of excellent coverage of FC Dallas.

 

Why thanks. Me too.

 

Love to hear it. Either from TA or MTA.

 

This whole raising money thing is really kinda new for me. if we end up short I may try out your idea.

 

I'll see what I can do.

 

each and every $ is appreciated.

 

Hey, I try and satisfy all my readers. So it's more like Larry Flint of soccer I guess.

 

It's an interesting idea. But FCD will want to support their own site I am sure as last I knew they were sending their PR guy again to write on the team. *shurgs*

 

Just a bump as a reminder.

 

thanks. Much appreciated.

 

And thanks for the sticky too.

 

I am looking into 3rd Degree t-shirts as a way to raise money not only for this trip but to support the site in general.

You guys think that shirts would be worth buying? would there be a level of interest?

 

they would not be red.